Taiwan has expressed concern the new routes are too close to existing routes that link it to airports on two groups of Taiwan-controlled islands lying close to China, and are a threat to flight safety. China has denied safety could be affected, saying it had no need of Taiwan's ...
BEIJING/TAIPEI — China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed complaints from Taiwan about repeated harassment by Chinese drones very close to Taiwanese-controlled islands as “not worth fussing about,” prompting Taipei to label Beijing as nothing more than thieves. Article content Article content...
Image:A Chinese warship fires towards the shore during a military drill near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands close to the Chinese coast Image:Chinese ships sail in the Taiwan Strait. Pic: AP US pledges training and weapons Meanwhile, the chair of the US House Forei...
Aboriginal peoples inhabited all of Taiwan and itsadjacentislands at the time that people from China began arriving. Those Chinese, both Hakka and Fukien Taiwanese, initially settled mainly on the island’s west coast and over time gradually moved inland. Many of the lowland aboriginal people were...
China's muscle-flexing has already affected the lives of Ishigaki's fisherman. Chinese Coast Guard ships have chased them away from the waters around the nearby Senkaku Islands, whichboth Japan and China claim to own. China calls them the Diaoyu Islands. ...
Taiwan has complained of Chinese drones repeatedly flying close to its small groups of islands near China’s coast. Article content The military will exercise the same right to “counter-attack” Chinese drones that did not heed warnings to leave its territory after posing threats, Lin added...
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Thursday that the soldier had failed to report for roll-call on Erdan islet, part of the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen group of islands that lie near the Chinese city of Xiamen. Speaking to reporters in parliament, Chiu Tai-san, head of Taiwan's Chi...
The ministry also said it detected four drones – in three separate batches – flying over “restricted waters” around the Kinmen islands, a group of Taiwan-controlled outlying islands close to China, on Thursday night local time. Taiwan’s defense ministry said in a statement Thursday night ...
A map released by the Eastern Theater Command showed drills taking place in nine areas surrounding Taiwan as well as its outlying islands that are closer to mainland China. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry added that 14 warships were detected around Taiwan over the same 25-hour ...
Schuster said in addition to the drills around Taiwan’s main island, the pressing of China’s Coast Guard and other forces into waters close to the outlying islands controlled by Taipei is “provocative.” “It puts Taiwan on the spot. If they react militarily or forcefully, they risk trig...