Month: July 2021

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a warning toward China this week regarding aggression in the Pacific. Austin, who spoke at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore on ... ( read original story ...)

The names of a number of the teams competing at the Olympic Games have had people scratching their heads. The main one has been ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee, which is an umbrella term for ... ( read original story ...)

To have any chance of conquering Taiwan, China might need to transport as many as two million troops across the rough 100 miles of the Taiwan Strait and land them under fire at the island’s 14 ... ( read original story ...)

Kuo Hsing-Chun collected an Olympic gold medal with an impressive batch of lifts in the 59kg weight class at the Tokyo Olympics. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan cannot even call itself 'Taiwan' at the Games. Instead, it must use the title 'Chinese Taipei', a source of considerable frustration to many Taiwanese. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo/UNI/Sputnik: Hsing-Chun Kuo, a female athlete who represents Chinese Taipei, a term used by the International Olympic Committee to represent Taiwan, won the weightlifting gold medal in the -59 ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's star weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, but when she ascended the podium to receive her medal there was no national flag. ( read original story ...)

Escalating U.S.-China tensions have triggered a debate in Washington over "strategic ambiguity" — the long-standing U.S. policy to stay quiet on whether it would defend Taiwan should China attack. ( read original story ...)