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This would be the third group of U.S. lawmakers to visit the Chinese-claimed island this month, including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who came in early August on a trip condemned by Beijing. ( read original story ...)

The former secretary of state ended his last visit with a controversial call for the U.S. to recognize the Chinese-claimed island as an independent country. ( read original story ...)

The Taiwanese defence ministry said the defences would first be installed on the outlying islands to cope with “grey-area threats” from the mainland. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory and ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei announced a record jump in its defense budget as it eyes new fighter jets and anti-ship missiles that could help repel an invasion by Chinese forces. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan proposed on Thursday $19 billion in defence spending for next year, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale military ... ( read original story ...)

China is honing its ability to blockade Taiwan, giving Beijing the option of cutting off the self-ruled island in its campaign to take control of it. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan proposed $19 billion in defense spending for next year on Thursday, weeks after China staged large-scale war games around the island. ( read original story ...)

Sitting pensively in a pew at a Taipei church, army reservist Henry Cheng is nonchalant about the Chinese warships and jets circling his island -- but he also feels ill-prepared for war. ( read original story ...)

A senior member of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), has told a top Chinese official of Taiwanese people's concerns about Beijing's war games near the island, in what the party ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government unveiled a proposed 12.9% on-year increase in the defence budget for 2023 to T$415.1 billion ($13.72 billion) on Thursday, as well as an additional T$108.3 billion in spending for ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will next year begin deploying drone defence systems on its offshore islands, the defence ministry said, after footage emerged of Taiwanese soldiers throwing stones at a Chinese drone that ... ( read original story ...)

China should not use a planned visit to Taiwan by Canadian lawmakers as pretext for either military or economic aggression, a spokesperson for Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Beijing threatens ‘forceful measures’ if Canada ‘interferes’ as MPs plan trade delegation to Taipei later this year ... ( read original story ...)

THE current Taiwan crisis sparked by the recent visit of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei on 2 August, 2022 led to the Chinese response consisting of ... ( read original story ...)

The Little League World Series will continue on Wednesday afternoon with another four games with the first being in the international bracket between Mexico and Chinese Taipei, with the winner ... ( read original story ...)

The US and China have each accused the other of changing the status quo on Taiwan, leading to the standoff. They are both correct because each country has a different perspective on what the status ... ( read original story ...)