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 ...
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...
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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...
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 ...
China claims self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has said it would never renounce the use of force to bring it under Beijing's control. It has stepped up pressure on Taipei in recent years and held war games around the island following the May 20 inauguration of new...
While those war games last only a day, Chinese military activity has continued. China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. Taiwan's defense ministry said earlier on Wednesday that a Chinese aircraft carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait, travelling in...
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...