TAIPEI — No matter who wins in any future war between Taiwan and China, it will be a “miserable victory,” Taiwan Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Thursday, a…
Shortly after announcing their completion, China's defense ministry on Monday issued a warning that the drills were not a repeat of the earlier "Joint Sword-2024A" war games held in May, but an increase in pressure against Taiwan independence, and said more could follow. (Reporting ...
China announced the drills after Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taipei from Los Angeles on Thursday, whereshe met House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Taiwan split from China after a civil war in 1949 and the ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the m...
China staged war games near Taiwan to express its anger at what it saw as stepped up U.S. support for the island Beijing views as sovereign Chinese territory. Article content Meeting military officers, Tsai extolled the “spirit” of defending against China’s more than a month of bomba...
Chinese Blockade Would Be Act of War, Taiwan Says More Reuters FILE PHOTO: China's Liaoning aircraft carrier takes part in the "Joint Sword-2024B" military drills east of Taiwan, in this screenshot from a handout video released by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern...
Taiwan came under Chinese control during the Qing dynasty but was given to Japan after China lost the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895. China regained control of Taiwan in 1945 after Japan lost World War II, but the civil war between the nationalists and communists led to the nationalists fl...
China has largely backed Russia in invading Ukraine, a conflict that has echoes in Beijing’s approach to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that it claims as Chinese territory to be annexed by force if necessary. “Nobody wants a war,” Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng tol...
Warfare between the two Chinas could draw in regional powers, as well as the United States—and that could render it the most devastating war since World War II. Here's what you need to know about the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. Part I: What Is the Backstory Between China ...
Closer collaboration and cooperation politically and economically would be far, far less costly than war to the benefit of both sides. A military conflict would be a loser for not only China and Taiwan but the world. Collaboration and cooperation present a large upside for both sides. China wou...
Those drills allow China to monitor Taiwan’s responses and also tax the island’s own military resources including its aging and outgunned fleet of fighter jets. Analysts said Monday’s drills were part of a general strategy of both keeping Taiwan under pressure and normali...