Taiwan will never be a country: defense spokesperson

Taiwan will never be a country, and no separatist activities seeking "Taiwan independence" or attempts by foreign forces to split China will ever succeed, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. The elections in the Taiwan region were the affairs of a region in China, spokesperson Wu Qian said at a ...

What Trump’s Taiwan Comments Tell China

The Chinese Communist Party government in Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan is its territory, despite never having governed there. Chinese officials framed the island's recent election, which handed the China-skeptic Democratic People's Party an unprecedented third term, as a choice between peace or war.