President Joe Biden said the country would come to Taiwan's defense if needed. Taiwan will show a firm determination to defend itself, presidential office spokesman Xavier Chang said in a statement responding to Biden's remarks, and noting his administration's continued concrete actions to show...
peaceful coexistence, no-confrontation and win-win cooperation. The Taiwan question is purely an internal affair of China, and no other country is entitled to act as a judge on the Taiwan question. China strongly urges...
Since the restoration of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States, there have been three strands of thought in the US about the appropriate relationship between the US and Taiwan. The mainstream view considers Taiwan neither a strategic asset nor a strategi...
Taiwan will fight to the end if China attacks, its foreign minister said, adding that the United States saw a danger that this could happen amid mounting Chinese military pressure, including aircraft carrier drills, near the island.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the U.S. would ensure Taiwan had the ability to defend itself if attacked. “There is no change in our policy,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union” before referring to “a long standing commi
“As reflected in the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States maintains the capacity to resist any resort to force, or other forms of coercion, that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan.” Article content The commander of the U....
If war ever breaks out between the United States and China, the South China Sea is the most likely theater. China’s disputes with its neighbors over competing territorial claims in the sea, its threats to take back Taiwan by force, and the overall tension in the region after more ...
To push its "pro-independence" agenda, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party is happy to be used as a pawn by the United States in the latter's game to check the peaceful rise of the Chinese mainland. In fact, for years, the collusion between Washington and the island has delayed...
And collectively, these forces had frayed the socioeconomic foundations on which any strong and resilient democracy rests. Now, these four challenges were not unique to the United States. Established and emerging economies were confronting them, too—in some cases more acutely than we are. When...
“U.S.-Philippines military cooperation must not harm the security interests of other countries or undermine regional peace and stability,” he said Thursday in a news conference. He added without elaborating that the United States has “an astonishing record of breaking its promises and abandoning...