Taiwan’s youth volunteer corps scheme in limbo over wartime combat fears

Authorities in Taiwan are under pressure to scrap a two-decade-old provision that allows high school students to be enlisted into wartime non-combat service. Under the island’s All-Out Defence Mobilisation Readiness Act of 2001, minors can be mobilised for the non-combat youth service corps during conflicts and natural disasters.

China makes love and war with Taiwan

Xinhua, the official news service, noted that instead of referring to China as the “the mainland”, which would suggest that China and Taiwan are one country, he referred to it as “China”, as if they were separate.

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