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Escalation prompts US president, Joe Biden, to make first public remarks on relationship with Taipei ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will more than double the number of people who have to quarantine at home to more than 5,000 as it seeks to contain a rare domestic cluster of COVID-19 connected to a ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei City is the most densely populated city in Taiwan. Although there are high-rise buildings everywhere, there are still many green spaces. In Taipei, parks a ... ( read original story ...)

The exercises, which included 13 warplanes on Saturday and 15 on Sunday, were the biggest so far this year and the first under the new U.S. administration. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. military said the carrier strike group was in the South China Sea to conduct routine operations “to ensure freedom of the seas." ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese air force planes including 12 fighter jets entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone for a second day on Sunday, Taiwan said, as tensions rise near the island just days into U.S. ( read original story ...)

The United States' commitment to Taiwan is "rock-solid", the State Department said late Saturday, as it warned that China's "attempts to intimidate" the island are a threat to regional peace. The ... ( read original story ...)

After new incidents of Chinese warplanes flying near Taiwan, the U.S. State Department urged Beijing to replace pressure with dialogue. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. State Department urged China to engage in dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected representatives and cease putting military, diplomatic and economic pressure on the island. ( read original story ...)

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. has reaffirmed support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island in an apparent attempt to intimidate its democratic government and test ... ( read original story ...)

Eight bombers and four fighter jets warned off as missiles deployed to monitor incursion ... ( read original story ...)

China ramped up its antagonism of Taiwan Saturday by sending 13 warplanes into the island’s airspace, prompting Taiwan to launch missiles to monitor the flights in response. China sent eight ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei says Chinese combat aircraft, including nuclear-capable H-6K bombers and fighter jets, entered its airspace. ( read original story ...)

Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan's air defense identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan's air force deployed missiles to "monitor" the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has long sought a bilateral trade deal with the United States, the Chinese-claimed island's most important international backer and supplier of arms. ( read original story ...)

But Biden and his team are likely to resist using Taiwan as a cudgel against China the way Trump did. After 9/11, Washington formed a national commission that made the country safer. It should do the ... ( read original story ...)