カテゴリー: Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen says she hopes ‘this is the beginning of genuine change’ after Xi Jinping’s UN speech saying Beijing would never seek hegemonyTaiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, says she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing wi…
Users complain about Genshin Impact, one of the biggest games ever released by a Chinese developer, which was released this weekA popular new game, Genshin Impact, is censoring words including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Falun Gong and Putin in the in-game chat…
An invasion may not be imminent but experts say armed forces could have capacity to mount one by the end of the decadeSoon after China imposed the new national security law that effectively ended Hong Kong’s limited autonomy, a hawkish legal academic …
New social media platform Polis cuts through noise and trolling to establish consensus – and create new lawsThe origin of one world always begins with its feet in another. And so it was in March 2014.It came to be known as the Sunflower movement, a sud…
Plea to remember ‘birds do not know borders’ amid spat between Taiwan’s largest bird conservation group and UK-based BirdLife InternationalBirdwatchers around the world may have to decide whether they are hawks or doves when it comes to the thorny issu…
Anger in Taipei after Beijing official says there is no median line in Taiwan StraitTaiwan has demanded that China “back off” and accused it of threatening peace, after a Beijing official rejected the existence of a largely respected marine boundary fo…
Taipei speaks of ‘real possibility’ of war as US undersecretary for economic affairs pays visit that Beijing regards as provocativeTaiwan’s foreign minister has called for the international community to help defend his country against an intensifying m…
Liu Yifei, who stars as Chinese heroine, has voiced support for Hong Kong police during suppression of protestsCalls to boycott Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan have been reignited ahead of its release on Friday, with Thai pro-democracy activists j…
New design aims to avoid confusion with mainland, says government, though opposition criticises ‘ideological move’Taiwan has revealed the new design of its passport, minimising the words “Republic of China” and eschewing popular submissions featuring p…
Footage shows a girl, 3, in Taiwan being lifted high into the air after becoming entangled in the strings of a kite. The unidentified girl was taking part in a kite festival on Sunday in the seaside town of Nanliao when she was hoisted several metres i…
Girl became entangled in tail of giant kite at festival and was rescued unharmedA three-year-old girl in Taiwan was caught up in the strings of a kite and lifted high into the air before being rescued unharmed.The unidentified girl was taking part in a…
The 500kg missile system was revealed days after the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in four decadesA new Chinese weapons system has been unveiled on state media amid growing tensions with Taiwan and the US.Chinese state TV ran reports over the weeken…
Nations from New Zealand to Cuba closed borders promptly with strict quarantine rules, but the UK won’t admit its ‘serious mistake’Island nations have an advantage when it comes to stopping travellers importing disease, be it Covid or other infections….
Joseph Wu tells visiting US health secretary Taiwan lives under constant threat of its freedoms being quashed by BeijingChina is trying to turn Taiwan into another Hong Kong, the island’s foreign minister warned on Tuesday as he met with a senior US of…
Alex Azar is the most senior US official to visit Taipei in 40 years, threatening to escalate US-China tensionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US health secretary, Alex Azar, has met with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen…