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The Taipei government has termed China's "one country and two systems" as a facade, stating that it is really intended to annexe Taiwan. This comes after the Taiwan government recalled seven ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said Japan and the U.S. would have to defend Taiwan together in the event of a major problem, Kyodo News reported, marking some of the highest-level remarks ... ( read original story ...)

Given the opportunity, Taiwan has the power to help the United States. Together we shall overcome this pandemic by supporting a new global effort to manufacture and distribute vaccines. ( read original story ...)

Cabinet says conditions not met to totally lift level-three curbs but there is room for ‘reasonable adjustments’. ( read original story ...)

Unit 1 at Taiwan's Kuosheng nuclear power plant was shut down and entered its decommissioning stage on 1 July after producing power for 40 years, state-run utility Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) said ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's Cabinet said on Monday that with COVID-19 cases abating there is room to ease restrictions and ministries and officials should make preparations for doing so, as the island begins emerging ... ( read original story ...)

Imports median forecast +33.4% (prior month +40.9%) Balance median forecast $5.68 bln (prior month $6.16 bln) CPI median forecast +2.3% y/y (prior month +2.48%) Trade due Wednesday, July 7, 4:00 p.m. ( read original story ...)

At the end of May, Chen Pei-jer, a member of an expert committee in Taiwan to evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for use on the island, resigned. Chen's resignation came after he learned that Taiwan's Food ... ( read original story ...)

In a major change of policy, Japan has decided to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China. This reverses a policy of 49 years, since Tokyo recognised Beijing and cut its diplomatic ties with ... ( read original story ...)

A Chinese magazine has marked the ruling Communist Party’s centenary by releasing a video simulating a military attack on Taiwan following a warning by President Xi that any move to separate the ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy of almost 24 million people located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, even though the two sides have been governed separately for ... ( read original story ...)

As the post-pandemic world will bring new changes to the global political landscape China aggressive internal dictatorship and external expansionism is bound ... ( read original story ...)

China as a digital authoritarian regime, and Taiwan as a digital democracy. Of the two, digital authoritarianism is easier to implement and there is much scholarship focused on defining and ... ( read original story ...)

To evaluate Taiwan’s defenses, ask whether Taipei is asking too much of the armed forces—and whether the armed forces are remaking themselves adequately to cope with today’s brave new world. ( read original story ...)

China among worst countries in human trafficking following its increasing repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet and forced lab ... ( read original story ...)

Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan's Foxconn, along with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reached initial agreements to each buy 5 million doses each of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ... ( read original story ...)