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The Japanese government warned that the military balance between China and Taiwan was tilting in China's favor. Tokyo said the situation was critical to its national security. ( read original story ...)

The language in the July 13 document differs from previous versions, which would carefully choose their use of words on the matter. ( read original story ...)

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has forced the Taipei Plas trade show to cancel as an in-person event for the second straight year. The fair, which had been scheduled for Sept. 28-Oct. 2 in Taipei, ... ( read original story ...)

BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million COVID-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei’s top diplomat in Berlin said on Tuesday, detailing how the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo warned that China’s rapid military expansion was threatening to upset the balance of power between Beijing and Washington. ( read original story ...)

Japan has for the first time signaled the importance of Taiwan to its national security in an annual defense report, which also highlights an increasingly assertive China as its main threat. The ... ( read original story ...)

"It is necessary that we pay close attention to the situation with a sense of crisis more than ever," Japan said in its annual defense white paper. ( read original story ...)

Japan will make additional donations of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan and other Asian neighbors this week, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday.  Japan will ship 1 million ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will ship out 1 million doses each to Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam on Thursday as part of bilateral deals with those governments, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said. ( read original story ...)

Japan believes rising tension surrounding Taiwan requires its attention “with a sense of crisis” as China intensifies military activities in the area and the United States steps up support for the ... ( read original story ...)

Growing military tensions around Taiwan as well as economic and technological rivalry between China and the United States threaten peace and stability in East Asia as the regional power balance shifts ... ( read original story ...)

BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million COVID-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei's top diplomat in Berlin said on Tuesday, detailing how the ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei is hosting the 29th Summer Universiade beginning on Aug. 19 but the organizing federation appears to not be sure what to call the island where the event is being held. The International ... ( read original story ...)

China, Chinese Taipei and Japan shared the 7 table tennis gold medals on offer at the 27th Universiade, which saw 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries descend onto the Russian city of Kazan. ( read original story ...)

The founder of one of the companies said the vaccine donation "will give the people of Taiwan some breathing room and more confidence in facing the pandemic." ... ( read original story ...)

For months Taiwan had struggled to buy millions of Covid-19 vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech SE, in part because President’s Tsai Ing-wen’s administration sought to go around a Chinese company that ... ( read original story ...)