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TAIPEI The inauguration of Tsai Ing-wen as Taiwan's president is likely to highlight the political gulf between the self-governing island and China. It may also, ironically, bring into sharper ...
If Taiwan is blockaded, that could cost the global economy over $2 trillion in annual losses, without factoring in the costs of a potential military confrontation between China and the United ...
Russia might attack Nato territory were China to launch an invasion of Taiwan, the head of Nato has warned. Here's what the ...
A new wave of purges has engulfed the senior leadership of China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army. Since the 20th ...
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Fate of Taiwan and the Philippines intertwined
There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war. These four countries are at the frontline of the impending conflict with China.
The mainland overtook Hong Kong as Taiwan's top export economy in 2004, and it has held that position for 18 and a half years. Meanwhile, the mainland has been the largest supplier of goods to ...
China filed to join the free trade agreement in a letter to New Zealand's trade minister, Damien O'Connor. Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua told reporters in Taipei that China's application ...
Taiwan's Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are taking place as China, which views the island as its own territory, has sought to force Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty claims.
Taiwan's annual military exercise, Han Kuang, begins on Wednesday as the island ramps up its defence against a possible ...
Audrey Tang, who heads Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, says she wants the island’s $740 billion economy to be able to handle the possible collapse of all its communications in the event ...
TAIPEI -- Taiwan will move fast to disentangle its economy from mainland China's in anticipation of worsening trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, Shen Jong-chin, the island's minister ...