The United States on Tuesday backed Taiwan re-entering the United Nations on the heels of the anniversary of its formal expulsion 50 years ago. ( read original story ...)
US has few good options if China seizes islands close to Taiwan, war game concludes
If China were to seize one of Taiwan's outlying islands, the US would have few good options to respond without risking a major escalation and a war between the superpowers, according to the ... ( read original story ...)
John Oliver Sketch Gets Grinning, Squinting Emoji From Taipei
A senior Taiwanese government official took to Twitter on Tuesday to playfully chide television host John Oliver over a recent comedy segment about the island. It’s unlikely Beijing will view the ... ( read original story ...)
State Department requests UN to accept Taiwan but fails to call it a country
The U.S. State Department refrained from referring to Taiwan as a country in a statement to the United Nations requesting that Taiwan participate in the international governing body. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Tells Citizens ‘Don’t Be Dismayed’ By WSJ Report on Low Troop Morale
The damning report found many conscripts and reserves who felt their short duration of training left them and their countrymen unprepared for conflict. ( read original story ...)
US urges more inclusion for Taiwan at UN
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged United Nations member states to include Taiwan in more UN institutions, despite opposition from China. ( read original story ...)
Blinken Seeks Bigger Role for Taiwan at United Nations
Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for other countries to join the U.S. in pressing to give Taiwan a greater role at the United Nations, as tensions with China over the island’s government rise. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Gains Favor in Europe’s East, Angering China
The intensifying links mirror tensions between the West and China over trade, military and human-rights issues. They also highlight differences within the West in how to approach an increasingly ... ( read original story ...)
China Military Aircraft Buzz Taiwan Air Defenses 10 Days in a Row
Regular military operations returned to the skies southwest of Taiwan following a brief period of quiet in which China sent just four flights in 11 days. ( read original story ...)
In Taiwan war game, few good options for U.S. to deter China
The war game and follow-on analysis comes at a moment of heightened tension between Washington and Beijing, with the United States opposing China’s military expansion in the region and China calling ... ( read original story ...)
War scars on Taiwan’s front line with China
On the windswept Taiwanese island of Kinmen, 50 year-old Chen Ing-wen is remembering his time as a soldier shooting flares at Chinese trawlers that got too close.He is one of a group of veterans who ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan seen growing 4% in Q3 on pandemic hit, but exports help
Taiwan's trade-reliant economy is expected to have expanded at a slower pace in the third quarter due to the island's COVID-19 outbreak, a Reuters poll showed, though supported by export growth and ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing will never let Taipei participate in UN, former envoy to US says
Cui Tiankai says talks between US and Taiwanese officials for ‘meaningful’ UN role ‘totally went against the tide of history’. ( read original story ...)
US-Taiwan talks spoil China’s anniversary of communist arrival at UN
U.S. officials are strategizing about “expanding Taiwan’s participation at the United Nations,” according to a State Department announcement that left Chinese officials fuming just as they were ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan foreign minister embarks on EU trip to bolster ties
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu visits Central Europe this week as Taipei and the European Union pursue closer political ties along with economic partnerships in areas such as semiconductors. On ... ( read original story ...)
John Oliver dissects Taiwan tensions: ‘Deeply weird, ambiguous status quo’
Tonight host examines the territory’s not-quite-independence amid escalating pressure from China ... ( read original story ...)