China has over the past four years regularly staged military activities around Taiwan, including large-scale war games in 2022 and in 2023. However, senior Taiwan lawmaker Wang Ting-yu from Lai's Democratic Progressive Party said the latest drills appeared to be more about China making a noise...
Following the 1949 defeat of Nationalist Forces in the Chinese Civil War, the Republic of China’s (ROC) government was forced to exile itself to Taiwan. In addition, there were remnants in Burma, the large island of Hainan, which was lost in spring 1950, and archipelagoes, such as the ...
China's military launched a new round of war games near Taiwan on Monday, saying it was a warning to the "separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces," drawing condemnation from the Taipei and U.S. governments. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan and China must do everything possible to avoid war and it is the responsibility of both sides' leaders to ensure peace, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told a senior Chinese official on Thursday. Ma arrived in China on Monday, the first tim...
So, to make the point that this has been a rehearsal for war, China had to release video, and an animation of Taiwanese targets on its hit list. None of it appeared to faze the Taiwanese we met, as they took a break on Taipei's network of cycle trails. After all, said Diana Lee...
"The only way forward is for the mainland to fully prepare itself for war and to give Taiwan secessionist forces a decisive punishment at any time," Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state-sponsored Global Times, wrote in a column Wednesday morning. "As the sece...
Beijing has never ruled out the use of military force to unify China with Taiwan, which has been governed independently since Chinese nationalists fled to the island after their loss to the Communists in the 1949 Chinese civil war. The White House quickly sought to clarify Biden's remarks, in...
On December 9, 1941, the Chinese government issued a declaration of war against Japan, and proclaimed that all treaties, conventions, agreements, and contracts regarding relations between China and Japan had been abrogated, and...
The U.S. move of reversing the course of history not only challenges China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also challenges international justice and conscience, as well as the post-World War II international order, Wang said, noting that "this is both absurd and dangerous." ...
The official also accused Lai of using his stopovers in the U.S. to sell out the interests of Taiwan to seek gains in the island’s election and described him as a “troublemaker who will push Taiwan to the dangerous brink of war,” the report a...