カテゴリー: Taiwan
China has dramatically increased military activities around Taiwan, with more than 3,000 incursions into Taiwan’s airspace in 2024 alone. Amy Hawkins examines how Beijing is deploying ‘salami-slicing’ tactics, a strategy of gradual pressure that stays …
Taiwan’s coastguard says it ‘cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China’Taiwan’s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule ou…
The mood in Taipei is one of wariness as the new US president takes a blowtorch to diplomatic norms and assurancesIt’s a bustling morning at the Dongmen wet market, in inner-city Taipei. Mr Yu is shouting at passersby, trying to offload his boxes of fr…
US state department last week removed line from fact sheet saying ‘We do not support Taiwan independence’China has called on the United States to “correct its mistakes” after a statement that Washington does not support an independent Taiwan was remove…
A cocktail of protectiveness, fear and superstition has led many Taiwanese to stay away from the ocean, but that is starting to change, one swimming class at a timeA dozen excited 10-year-olds are bouncing in their chairs. The small classroom’s walls a…
Atomic scientists push clock to 89 seconds before midnight, citing nuclear risk, AI and climate crisis as a ‘warning’A panel of international scientists has moved their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nucle…
Former vice-president makes surprise visit to Taipei and predicts that if China annexes its neighbour other Asia-Pacific countries will build nuclear arsenalsMike Pence called on Donald Trump’s incoming administration to maintain support for Taiwan aga…
China has increased its incursions into Taiwan’s airspace over the last year, part of strategic harassment that is taking a toll on the island’s resourcesChina’s military launched a record number of warplane incursions around Taiwan in 2024 as it build…
Shunxing 39 was briefly detained by coastguard on Friday on suspicion of dragging anchor over cable running to USTaiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-owned vessel that is suspected of damaging an undersea internet cable, causing limited di…
Revellers around the world ring in the new year with parties, celebrations and fireworksNew Year’s Eve live: celebrations around the world as 2025 begins Continue reading…
Mizo Games wants players to have a chance to ‘experience war on the tabletop before it reaches us’As families in Taiwan prepare to gather for lunar new year celebrations in January, a game that will be released that month promises to offer some war-the…
Dictators in Russia and China should be denied further control of raw materials used in electronics, writes John E Havard. Plus a letter from Fawzi IbrahimA footnote to the excellent article by Timothy Garton Ash (What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can…
Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade warArguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White …
Officials declare Xu Wei persona non grata after he asks Paraguay government to choose China over longtime allyParaguay has expelled a Chinese envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off tie…
Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island – prompts Beijing’s protestsThe Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pac…