CPTPP: Taiwan VS China
Taiwan filed to join a Trans-Pacific trade group days after China formally submitted its application, potentially compounding an already awkward position for the pact’s 11 members. • What is...
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Biden doubles-down on Trump’s Taiwan policy, but will it last?
Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Rand Corporation. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon. It is an open secret that Taiwan welcomed...
How Long Can the Biden Administration Stall a Crisis in Taiwan?
There’s no relationship between two countries on Earth quite like that between the United States and Taiwan. The island nation is America’s ninth-largest trading partner and one of the main...
Taiwan says Chinese fighters, U.S. aircraft both entered defence zone
TAIPEI- Six Chinese fighter aircraft and a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Sunday, the island’s defence ministry said,...
Taiwan to discuss supply chains with U.S. next week amid auto shortage
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua will hold a virtual meeting with the United States next week to discuss supply chains, with semiconductor firms present, her ministry said on...
Australian’s new envoy to Taiwan to take up post Feb. 1
Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) Australia's new representative to Taiwan Jenny Bloomfield is set to assume her post Feb. 1, the Australian Office in Taipei announced Wednesday. Bloomfield was Australia's...
Outging US ambassador says world must end Taiwan’s exclusion
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a final swipe at China, the Trump administration’s outgoing U.N. ambassador tweeted that it’s time for the world to oppose China’s efforts to exclude and isolate...
Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese warplanes for second day
TAIPEI - Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles to...
Taiwan officially launched a brand-new passport
Taiwan on Monday launched a brand new passport that places a diplomatic spin on the idea of social distancing amid the pandemic. The self-governing island’s official identify, Republic of China,...
U.S. plan to sell MQ-9 Reaper drones to Taiwan vex Beijing
The United States has agreed to sell four armed MQ-9 Reaper drones to Taiwan will complicate Beijing’s incessant prodding of the island’s defences. Thanks to China’s sabre rattling over a...