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Taiwan tightens laws against China economic espionage
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
An amendment to the national security act made economic espionage an offence punishable by a maximum 12-year jail term. The move aims to "better protect the com...
China rejects US call to invite Taiwan to WHO assembly
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
Taiwan has been blocked from attending the assembly in recent years by China, which considers the island a renegade province to be reunified with the mainland. ...
US presses WHO to invite Taiwan to annual assembly
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
The WHO's annual World Health Assembly meeting, scheduled for May 22-28, "is an opportunity to drive cooperation towards ending the acute phase of the Covid-19 ...
Man attacked US church over 'hatred of Taiwan': probe
May 17, 2022 (AFP)
David Chou jammed the doors shut using chains and superglue as dozens of parishioners enjoyed a post-service banquet at the church in Laguna Woods, near Los Ang...
Freed Taiwan activist recounts 'fascist circus' of Chinese court
May 10, 2022 (AFP)
Lee Ming-che spoke publicly for the first time since returning to Taipei last month, following a national security conviction that further strained already tens...
US plays down change as China angered by Taiwan 'fact sheet'
May 10, 2022 (AFP)
The State Department said the United States still only recognized Beijing as China's government and was simply polishing off an online fact sheet which had not ...
China 'carefully' studying Ukraine war as it eyes Taiwan: CIA chief
May 07, 2022 (AFP)
"Clearly the Chinese leadership is trying to look carefully at what lessons they should draw from Ukraine about their own ambitions and Taiwan," Burns told a Fi...
China stages second-largest air incursion into Taiwan defence zone this year
May 06, 2022 (AFP)
Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by Beijing, which sees the self-ruled democratic island as part of its territory to be retaken one day, by fo...
Taiwan scraps deal to buy US anti-submarine helicopters
May 05, 2022 (AFP)
The island was planning to buy up to 12 Seahawk choppers but the deal has been scrapped as Taipei prioritises lower cost, more mobile weaponry to counter any th...
Taiwan says to keep Ukraine lessons in mind during annual wargame
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
The island's 23 million people live under constant threat of an invasion by China, which views the self-ruled democratic island as part of its territory to be r...
Taiwan TV station apologises over false Chinese war blunder
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
Taiwan's 23 million people live under constant threat of an invasion by China, which views the self-ruled democratic island as part of its territory to be re-ta...
Taiwan activist home after five years in China jail
Apr 15, 2022 (AFP)
Local media live-streamed footage of Lee Ming-che's arrival in Taiwan via a Xiamen Air flight before he was escorted by two airport workers in pandemic protecti...
US senators defy China threats with Taiwan visit
Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)
The group, which also includes Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez, is making the latest in a string of visits by foreign politicians to th...
Taiwan issues wartime survival handbook
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
China's Communist Party has never controlled self-ruled Taiwan but it nonetheless views the island as part of its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, b...
China warns against any Pelosi visit to Taiwan; China's Phoenix TV faces closure
Apr 07, 2022 (AFP)
Japanese and Taiwanese media on Thursday reported that Pelosi will visit Taiwan next week, after leading a delegation to Japan this weekend. Neither Taiwan nor ...
China's Phoenix TV faces closure in Taiwan
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Taipei has imposed tighter restrictions on Chinese companies seeking to invest on the island amid lingering political and military tensions between the two side...
Taiwan military reservists train under cloud of Ukraine war
Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)
Taiwan last year stepped up its training regime for reservists as tensions rise with Beijing, which sees the self-ruled island as part of its territory to be se...
'Lithuania mania' sweeps Taiwan as China spat sizzles
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
In the months since Taiwan opened a de-facto embassy in Vilnius, Richard Sedinkinas says he has started to receive applause in restaurants once waitstaff realis...
US should diplomatically recognise 'free' Taiwan: Pompeo
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
Pompeo, one of former president Donald Trump's most hawkish advisers on China, arrived Wednesday for a visit at a time of rising tensions between Washington and...
On Taiwan visit Pompeo says island must not suffer Ukraine's fate
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
"If any of us were mistaken or complacent about the risk to that freedom, I think we need only watch what's taking place in Europe today to see that this contin...
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