For Prelims: China-Taiwan Conflict, South China Sea, Taiwan Relations Act,1979, One China Policy, Philippines, India’s Act East Foreign Policy. For Mains: Significance of Taiwan for India, Stand of India on the Taiwan Issue.China continues to assert its sovereignty over Taiwan, viewing it ...
To counter the Chinese threats, the ministry said it was working on measures to “preserve” its troops in the event of a war by boosting the resilience of its infrastructure and running drills to ensure Taiwan forces survive in a prolonged conflict. It also said it was drawing lessons from ...
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and China's perceived backing of Moscow in the conflict, has heightened concern that Beijing could make a similar play to seize control of Taiwan. Tsai is stopping in New York and Los Angeles this week and next on "transit visits" before and after formal vis...
Taiwan and the South China Sea Conflict: the China connection revisitedKristen Nordhaug
The new Yushan-class amphibious platform dock is a particularly bizarre example of a large, expensive ship that would be quickly destroyed in a conflict, taking hundreds of Taiwanese sailors and marines with it. The Takeaway Until recently, Taiwan spent just 2 percent of GDP on defense, ...
The Taiwan-China Conflict Is Creating This Panic Ellen: It became real because all of a sudden people said, "Oh, no. We're going to run out of gas," and they started lining up at gas stations and creating this panic. The sense of, "There's going to be a fuel shortage." That pa...
The origins of the contemporary conflict over the South China Sea can be traced to changes in East Asian geopolitics following World War II (1939–45). China’s historical claims to the sea date to the so-called “11-dash line,” introduced in 1947 by the Nationalists (Kuomintang) under ...
“There was no reason to react in any way militarily,” he said. “There’s no reason for tensions across the Taiwan Strait to devolve into any kind of conflict.” China responded immediately to the McCarthy meeting by imposing atravel ban and financial sanctionsagainst those associated with...
military exercises, patrols, and surveillance that falls just short of armed conflict. Since that report, the campaign has intensified, with Beijing stepping up the number of warplanes it is sending into the airspace around Taiwan. China has alsoused sand dredgers to swarm Taiwan’s outlying ...