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Blinken to meet senior Chinese official on eve of Taiwan vote
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
Blinken, briefly back in Washington in between his latest Middle East crisis tour and a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, will see Liu Jianchao, who he...
Taiwan's mainland Chinese caught in cross-strait tussle
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
But Li is highly unusual: she is originally from mainland China, one of only two people running for the island's parliament to hail from across the Taiwan Strai...
Chinese media downplay, disparage Taiwan election
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
In self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims is part of its territory, voters head to the polls on Saturday in a democratic election that will set the course of tie...
China tells US to 'refrain from intervening' in Taiwan election, slams official visits
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Washington must "refrain from intervening in the elections in the Taiwan region in any form, so as to avoid causing serious damage to China-US relations", forei...
Taiwan prepares for an election under China's watchful eye
Jan 11, 2024 (UPI)
While many voters are concerned about domestic issues such as sluggish economic growth and energy security, the threat from China -- which has repeatedly vowed ...
'Our way of life': Taiwan to vote in election dominated by China
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
A bustling, vibrant democracy of 23 million, Taiwan is separated by a narrow 180-kilometre (110-mile) strait from communist-ruled China, which claims it as part...
Taiwan prepares for cyber D-Day in China invasion scenarios
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, and the island's security planners run simulated worst-case scenarios constantly to prepare for the day Beijing...
China military tells US will 'never compromise' on Taiwan
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
China "stressed that it will never compromise or back down on the Taiwan issue," the ministry said in a readout of the talks in Washington, held Monday and Tues...
Nicaragua shutters associations with links to Taiwan
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
The interior ministry also decreed that all assets of the four -- including the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce in Nicaragua and the Taiwanese-Nicaraguan Business...
'Not part of China': Taiwanese chart separate identity
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
She has spent nearly a quarter-century championing Taiwan's cuisine and teaching recipes to tourists and sometimes locals, explaining how a dish that originated...
Cross-strait couple's love transcends China, Taiwan tensions
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
But Willy is Taiwanese and Louis is from mainland China, a cross-strait love story that places them on opposite sides of one of the 21st century's tensest flash...
Taiwan island scarred by China war prepares for key vote
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Kinmen, which lies 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Taiwan island but only seven kilometres from the Chinese mainland, was a battlefield frontline for the nation...
Possible scenarios for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Frontrunner candidate Lai Ching-te has drawn ire from Beijing, which calls him a "stubborn worker for Taiwan independence" and an "outright saboteur of peace". ...
Surprise launch of Chinese satellite triggers missile attack alerts in Taiwan
Jan 09, 2024 (UPI)
The trajectory of the spacecraft, which blasted off shortly after 3 p.m. local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center 1,200 miles away in Sichuan provinc...
Taiwan issues alert over China satellite as poll ramps up security fears
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
The alert came hours after election front-runner Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's current vice president, accused Beijing of using "all means" to influence this weekend's...
China says mulling more tariffs on Taiwan goods ahead of vote
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, and has ramped up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on the island in recent years. Beijing previously sus...
'We are a democracy': Taiwan's voters raise their voice
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Their choices are frontrunner Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, major opposition Kuomintang candidate Hou Yu-ih, and Taiwan People's Pa...
China sanctions five US firms over Taiwan arms sales
Jan 07, 2024 (AFP)
China has vowed to one day seize Taiwan, while the US Congress requires the supply of weapons to the self-governing democracy for its defence. Last month, the U...
Taiwan 'will resist' China interference in election: presidential frontrunner
Jan 03, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory, and rejects the stance of Lai's Democratic Progressive Party which maintains that Taiwan is "alre...
Taiwan's President Tsai urges China to seek 'peaceful coexistence'
Jan 01, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwan is less than two weeks from an election, closely watched from Beijing to Washington as it determines the future of the self-ruled island's relations with...
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