Taipei's top China affairs official warned that Taiwan's government "will not tolerate" Beijing's active engagement solely with opposition politicians while it refuses dialogue with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te's democratically elected administration,
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has held talks with former US Vice President Mike Pence, apparently hoping to strengthen cooperation with Washington amid China's increasing assertiveness.
A growing number of researchers fear that the controversial app is promoting pro-China content and softening attitudes towards the People’s Republic
Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is an island separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. Mainland China, officially the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule and asserts that Taiwan is an integral part of its territory, though it has never governed the island.
China's population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation that is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people able to support their elders.
Groups from Fujian and Shanghai are the first to be allowed to visit the island in a move Beijing says will help ‘strengthen exchanges’.
China’s efforts to entice more Taiwanese people to get permits to live and work on the mainland is prompting concern in Taipei that Beijing could be laying the groundwork to justify intervention in the self-governing island’s affairs,
Beijing is taking a two-pronged approach to the incoming president: trying to sweeten up Trump while also signaling it is ready to fight efforts to constrain it.
CIA director Billl Burns believes Chinese President Xi Jinping has directed his military to be capable of moving against Taiwan by 2027.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday welcomed an announcement by Chinese authorities on their plan to resume group travel to Taiwan for residents of Shanghai and its Fujian Province. “The [Taiwanese] government welcomes Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan,” the MAC said in a statement.
Manila and Taipei, facing PLA confrontations, may need to depend less on the US and appeal to Trump’s transactional nature, analysts say.