In fact, the reason for drawing that line is not about Taiwan at all, but because of what the consequences of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be for India and the rest of Asia.ConclusionIndia's expanding national interests present stronger reasons to maintain the status quo regarding Taiwan...
Furthermore, the election outcome may not hold much significance for Taiwan's immediate future. We maintain our view that an invasion of Taiwan by China is a low probability over the intermediate term. The chart below from Taiwan's National Chengchi University tracks sentiment among the Taiwanese...
“China understands the severe downsides of a failed attack or invasion of Taiwan and will probably continue to bide its time.” Up next US Postal Service restores delivery of incoming parcels from China and Hong Kong after briefly suspending them 3 minute read DeepSeek is giving the world...
"In all likelihood, the U.S. would be involved in a shooting war," said longtime China observer Gordon Chang. "If China were to invade Taiwan or invade some other country in the region, I think that you would see the United States coalesce very quickly to defend those countries." Where...
Even so, Yamazato hates the idea of a beefed-up military presence on Ishigaki. As a little girl during World War II, she lost her mother, brother, sister and grandfather. The U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945 began on the neighboring island of Okinawa. ...
As late as the early 2000s, such an invasion was derisively described as the "million-man swim," and would have almost certainly ended in a turkey shoot—especially if U.S. forces intervened. By the early 1990s, China had opened its doors to foreign manufacturing, kicking off a ...
Military tensions between Taiwan and China are at their worst in more than 40 years, Taiwan's Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said this month, adding that China will be capable of mounting a "full-scale" invasion by 2025. China says Taiwan is the most sensitive and important issue in its...
By contrast, he said, "we practice multilateralism and pursue win-win cooperation." Li is under American sanctions that are part of a broad package of measures against Russia — but predate its invasion of Ukraine — that were imposed in 2018 over Li's involvement in China's purchase of co...
China announces that it has taken over the islands of Jinmeng (金門) and Mazhu (馬祖) after a bloodless invasion overnight. Penghu (澎湖) is the next target. Plans for a full-scale invasion of the island of Taiwan have long been drawn up but the invasion isn’t on the table just yet...