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TAIPEI– Son of a coal miner, Taiwan’s Lai Ching-te takes the helm Monday as president of the self-ruled island, tasked with navigating the widening rift with an increasingly assertive China. The 64-year-old Harvard graduate swept to the presidency in January’s elections on the promise he would defend Taiwan’s democracy and resist Beijing’s claims on the

"The first thing Hou must do is to unify the party as the support for Gou could create a rift within the KMT," said Huang Kwei-bo, a professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University in Taipei. "But with his ability to manage interpersonal ...

A Chinese takeover of Kinmen might not take much longer, such is the disparity in power. The boat’s owner is not keen on mainlanders fishing and dredging sand in Taiwan’s waters. But, having witnessed the artillery duels of the past,

When Lai, a known China skeptic, triumphed in January’s election, international headlines suggested that Taiwan’s voters had worsened this breach by keeping the presidency in the hands of the ...

Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's president on Monday, facing a China that calls him a "dangerous separatist" and has ramped up military drills, as well as a fractured parliament at home where no ...

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an met with Japanese ruling party officials in Tokyo in his first visit to Japan since assuming office in 2022.

An international alliance of parliamentarians is to hold its annual summit in Taipei in July, bringing legislators from more than 20 countries to Taiwan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) ...

A mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday that the mainland was deeply concerned about frequent reports of damage to cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Taipei, urging Taiwan's relevant ...

The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president.

A bipartisan delegation of Australian parliamentarians will attend the inauguration of Taiwan's President-elect Dr Lai Ching-te, drawing a forceful warning from China and complicating Australia's relationship with Beijing.

He said that launching the project was meaningful to him before he on Monday next ... They transported the suspect to New Taipei City for questioning and recorded his statement last night. The suspect ...

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an, increasingly tipped as a future Taiwanese presidential candidate, and former Japanese Prime Minister Tar ...

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an from Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, has visited the headquarters of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo.

As the United States now accelerates its plunge into a dangerous rivalry with China, U.S. policymakers must not forget the lessons of the Berlin crisis—lessons about how two sparring superpowers tiptoed back from war and ultimately arrived at an uneasy détente.

China said it would sanction five Taiwanese political commentators and roll out a law to punish “separatists,” moves aimed at piling pressure on incoming president Lai Ching-te just days before he takes office.

Beijing has ratcheted up military, economic and diplomatic pressure since President Tsai Ing-wen of the China-skeptic DPP was elected in 2016. Tsai's incoming successor, President-elect Lai Ching-te, ...