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Beijing largely kept to its side of the Taiwan Strait's center line until 2020. Following visits to Taipei by high-ranking U.S. cabinet officials that summer and fall, China began sending increasingly more warplanes and warships across the 100-mile waterway and into Taiwan's air defense identification zone.

Taiwan’s ruling party made the country too risky for Taylor Swift to tour with its China-sceptic rhetoric, the island’s political opposition claimed as it entered a tense final stretch of election campaigning.

The Tourism Administration yesterday in a ceremony in the Grand Hotel Taipei unveiled the designs of the main lantern and handheld lanterns of this year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival. The annual festival ...

Taiwanese defense officials have confirmed the presence of several Chinese spy flights over the island's airspace just days before the country's presidential election.

Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted in his New Year's address his country will "surely" be reunited with Taiwan as the island nation prepares to hold its presidential elections.

Jeremy Lin scored a team-high 23 points to lead New Taipei City Kings to an 89-77 win over the Meralco Bolts in their East Asia Super League game at the Philsports Arena.

Taylor Swift has unexpectedly become a major talking point in the imminent Taiwanese elections after a politician alleged that the pop sensation refused to perform on the self-governed island, fearing a war would break out with China.

Starting with its first direct presidential election in 1996, Taiwan has conducted seven rounds of elections for president, with three peaceful changes of governing party. Through the years following Taiwan’s successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy,

According to an official who spoke anonymously due to lack of authorization to engage with the media, Beijing might adopt a wait-and-see approach, reserving a robust reaction until after May 20 when the incoming president assumes office and delivers an inauguration address.

The Taiwanese defense ministry reports four Chinese balloons floating across the self-ruled island days ahead of a pivotal election.

Meralco’s offense conked out in the second half as the Bolts fell to Jeremy Lin and the visiting New Taipei Kings, 89-77, in their East Asia Super League (EASL) rematch on Wednesday night. The Bolts, ...

The Meralco Bolts ran out of ammunition in the second half and bowed to the unblemished New Taipei Kings, 89-77, in East Asia Super League (EASL) action Wednesday at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City ...

Xi Jinping has demanded China’s military complete a modernisation programme by 2027 – the year when some analysts fear Beijing could try to take Taiwan by force

China claims the estranged island of Taiwan, which remained a democracy compared to China's one-party rule of the ruling Communist Party, as part of the mainland

Jaw Shaw-kong, the KMT's vice president candidate, said last month Taiwan should ramp up missile production to show it can strike into China in the event of war, although he also said China should allow in Taiwanese military observers as a sign of goodwill and to lessen tensions.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Over the past seven years, Taiwan has varied its export markets and cut its reliance on the Chinese economy, the National Development Council (NDC) said Tuesday (Jan. 2). The st