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Taiwan detects 62 Chinese aircraft as US ships transit waters
Feb 12, 2025 (AFP)
The United States and its allies regularly transit the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering Bei...
Taiwan bans government agencies from using DeepSeek
Feb 01, 2025 (AFP)
DeepSeek launched its R1 chatbot last month, claiming it matches the capacity of artificial intelligence pace-setters in the United States for a fraction of the...
Taiwan identifies 52 'suspicious' Chinese ships for close monitoring
Jan 27, 2025 (AFP)
The stricter regime comes after a Cameroon-flagged vessel was briefly detained by Taiwan's coast guard earlier this month on suspicion of damaging an internatio...
Rubio clashes with China FM on Taiwan
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
Rubio, a longtime China hawk, spoke with Wang for the first time by telephone at the end of his first week in office, which he began by forming a united front w...
Taiwan indicts ex-general over 'armed' group to help China invasion
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring the self-ruled island under its control. There has been a series of spying...
China says will restart some group tours to Taiwan
Jan 17, 2025 (AFP)
The culture and tourism ministry said residents of Shanghai and the southeastern province of Fujian -- which lies just across the strait from Taiwan -- would be...
Taiwan says navy ready to protect undersea cables
Jan 16, 2025 (AFP)
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring it under its control. Taipei fears Beijing could sever communication links...
Taiwan says suspects Hong Kong-owned ship of damaging subsea cable
Jan 06, 2025 (AFP)
The Cameroon-flagged vessel was intercepted by the coast guard on Friday after Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom reported damage to a subsea cable. The vessel, which is...
China slaps sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms sales
Jan 02, 2025 (AFP)
Subsidiaries of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon that had "participated in selling arms to Taiwan" were added to China's "Unreliable Entities Lis...
Taiwan's Lai says island must show 'determination' to defend itself
Jan 01, 2025 (AFP)
Self-ruled Taiwan faces the constant threat of invasion from China, which claims the island as part of its territory and has refused to renounce the use of forc...
China's Xi says 'no one can stop' unification with Taiwan
Dec 31, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory, and has said it will not renounce the use of force to bring it under its control. China has inten...
Taiwan holds first China 'expansion' simulation; China sanctions US firms over Taiwan military support
Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)
Tabletop exercises are a tool strategists use to game out how real-world scenarios may unfold, testing how organisations will react and coordinate against a sim...
Taiwan govt says opposition-led amendments risk defence budget
Dec 23, 2024 (AFP)
The opposition-majority parliament passed the amendments last week to reduce the central government's tax revenue by NT$375.3 billion (US$11.5 billion), drawing...
U.S. 'playing with fire' funding Taiwan's military, China says
Dec 22, 2024 (UPI)
President Joe Biden authorized up to $571 million in U.S. Defense Department military education and training funding for Taiwan, which Beijing argues is its ter...
China says it 'firmly opposes' US military aid to Taiwan
Dec 22, 2024 (AFP)
The White House said Friday that Biden had authorised the drawdown "of up to $571.3 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and m...
US President Biden authorizes $571 million in military aid to Taiwan
Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)
The United States does not officially recognize Taiwan diplomatically but it is the self-ruled island's strategic ally and largest supplier of weapons. China, w...
Ex-Taiwan leader says China visit to foster cross-strait peace
Dec 18, 2024 (AFP)
Ma, who belongs to the Beijing-friendly main opposition party Kuomintang, was president of the democratic island from 2008 to 2016. He oversaw warmer relations ...
Taiwan receives first batch of US-made Abrams tanks; Chinese politicians make rare Taiwan trip
Dec 16, 2024 (AFP)
Washington has long been Taipei's most important ally and biggest arms supplier -- angering Beijing, which claims Taiwan as part of its own territory. The M1A2 ...
Taiwan says Chinese ships have left, signalling drills over
Dec 13, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwan's coast guard released images it said showed Chinese vessels sailing north in rough seas past the island on Thursday, on their way to China. "All the Chi...
Taiwan says 'troublemaker' China expands military drills around island
Dec 11, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing's biggest maritime drills in years involve about 60 warships and 30 coast guard vessels deployed from near the southern islands of Japan to the South Ch...
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