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Taiwan's star weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, but when she ascended the podium to receive her medal there was no national flag. ( read original story ...)

Escalating U.S.-China tensions have triggered a debate in Washington over "strategic ambiguity" — the long-standing U.S. policy to stay quiet on whether it would defend Taiwan should China attack. ( read original story ...)

Kuo, who holds the world record with a total lift of 247kg, lifted 236kg to win gold on Tuesday, an Olympic record. ( read original story ...)

Kuo Hsing-Chun has won Taiwan’s first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a dominant performance in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting category ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing sees self-ruled Taiwan as a renegade province that should be brought back under its control. Last year Beijing condemned the head of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, for ... ( read original story ...)

Tensions over Taiwan can also potentially start another world war among nations like China and the US. A Chinese military expert has now warned the US that it will not succeed in intervening in Chinas ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's economy is expected to have expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter as a rare spike in COVID-19 cases hurt consumption, a Reuters poll showed, although a strong growth in exports ... ( read original story ...)

The Czech Republic is donating 30,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan, the island's president said on Tuesday, praising the central European country for taking a step that could irritate China. ( read original story ...)

Although Japan has in recent months hinted it would aid in any Taiwanese defense against China, it would only help defend the island from Chinese attack if called on by the U.S. or if the conflict ... ( read original story ...)

Instead, Taiwan appears as Chinese Taipei and has done since 1984, because the Peoples’ Republic of China considers the territory part of China. Taiwan broke away from China in 1948 as Mao Zedong’s ... ( read original story ...)

To have any chance of conquering Taiwan, China might have to mobilize as many as 2 million troops and take up into naval service thousands of ships crewed by hundreds of thousands of mariners. ( read original story ...)

In the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics held on Friday night (July 23), Japanese national broadcaster NHK introduced the Taiwanese delegation as "Taiwan" to its viewers, instead of its official ... ( read original story ...)

But there’s perhaps nothing more complicated than the group of 68 athletes competing in the Tokyo Games for a nation that doesn’t really exist. You can try and look it up on a map; you won’t find it. ( read original story ...)

That the deal came via a businessman with strong ties to Mainland China months after the government failed to buy the same vaccines, indicates that Beijing put its finger on the scale, political ... ( read original story ...)

The self-ruled island once went 200 days without a case in the community, but wasn't prepare for what came next. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has been competing under the name Chinese Taipei since the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. It's hard to keep politics out of sports, especially at an international event like the Olympics. Some ... ( read original story ...)