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China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan to showcase Beijing's ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei's resolve to defend itself and its ...

The drills follow the Trump administration’s mid-December approval of one of the largest packages of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. The approvals, valued at over $11 billion, led Beijing to impose ...

China launched live-fire drills around Taiwan on Monday that it said would simulate a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports, prompting Taipei to condemn Beijing's "military intimidation." ...

The drills come amid Chinese anger at U.S. arms sales to the self-ruling island and a statement by Japan’s prime minister that its military could get involved if China were to move against it.

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as as its own, although the Communist Party in Beijing has never ruled the island since coming to power in the Chinese mainland in 1949. Taipei, meanwhile, ...

China launched live-fire drills around Taiwan on Monday that it said would simulate a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports, prompting Taipei to condemn Beijing's "military intimidation." ...

The drills came after Beijing expressed anger at U.S. arms sales, and a statement by Japan's prime minister saying its military could get involved if China were to take action against Taiwan.

The exercises end months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait and come after the Trump administration announced arms sales to the island.

The joint Chinese military drills will involve army, navy, air force and rocket force operating in the Taiwan Strait as well as in areas to the north, south-west, south-east and east of Taiwan, ...

China is holding military drills around Taiwan simulating the seizure and blockade of the island's key areas, as a warning against "separatist forces". The army, navy, air force and rocket force have ...

A Chinese takeover of Taiwan would make the threat to Japanese territory more acute, said Yuki Tatsumi, senior director at the U.S.-based Institute for Indo-Pacific Security. “Japan will no longer have a buffer, if you will,” she said, adding that it would face direct pressure from the Chinese navy.

Beijing's drills increasingly blur the line between routine military training exercises and what analysts say could be stage-setting for an attack, a strategy intended to give the U.S. and its allies minimal warning of an assault.

The Chinese military says it’s dispatching air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around Taiwan to warn against what it called separatist and “external interference” forces

A viral video captures the terrifying moment a Taiwan 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck, causing power outages and evacuations at major tech firms.

Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) yesterday officially announced his candidacy for next year’s New Taipei City mayoral election, with former party chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit Taiwan just off its northeast coast late Saturday. The earthquake took place at 11:05 p.m. local time, 20 miles from the ...