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Nearly 11,000 Hong Kongers moved to Taiwan in 2020
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan has long attracted Hong Kong people seeking an alternative to their city's frenetic pace and sky-high rents. But a new security law has accele...
Taiwan reports 3% GDP growth in pandemic-hit 2020, beating China
Jan 29, 2021 (AFP)
Full-year gross domestic product was estimated at 2.98 percent for 2020, higher than a November forecast of 2.54 percent, according to preliminary data released...
China says flyovers in Taiwan Strait a 'solemn warning'
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
China views democratic Taiwan as part of its territory that must one day be reunified, by force if necessary, and the issue has quickly become a flashpoint for ...
Taiwan expelled thousands of Chinese dredgers from its waters
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
China has taken an increasingly belligerent tone towards Taiwan under President Xi Jinping -- especially over the last twelve months with Beijing's jets and bom...
Chinese military aircraft overfly Taiwan's airspace
Jan 25, 2021 (UPI)
While over 380 Chinese military flights into the island's air defense identification zone were recorded in 2020, Saturday's incursion involved eight Chinese bom...
US says support for Taiwan 'rock-solid' as Chinese jets buzz island
Jan 24, 2021 (AFP)
The comments are the first from Washington on relations with Taiwan since President Joe Biden's inauguration last week, and came on the same day Taipei reported...
Taiwan invited to US inauguration for first time since Carter
Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)
Hsiao Bi-khim, Taipei's envoy, posted a video of herself at Wednesday's inauguration saying she was "honoured to represent the people and government of Taiwan h...
US envoy chides China in talk with Taiwan leader
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
Ambassador Kelly Craft praised Taiwan's success in fighting the coronavirus while criticising China for blocking the island from global bodies during a video di...
China threatens 'counterstrike' over US contact with Taiwan
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday Washington would lift "complex internal restrictions" on contacts with Taipei by diplomats, after a year of moun...
US ends curbs on official American contacts with Taiwan
Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)
Pompeo said the "complex internal restrictions" on contacts with Taipei by diplomats, service members and others had been imposed "in an attempt to appease the ...
Taiwan says Chinese jets made record 380 incursions in 2020
Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)
Democratic and self-ruled Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its own territory and has vowed t...
US spy plane flies from South Korea into Taiwanese air space
Dec 11, 2020 (UPI)
No Callsign published data of the movements of the U.S. U-2S surveillance aircraft to Twitter on Thursday. According to the tracker, the spy plane flew from Osa...
State Dept. approves $280M communications system sale to Taiwan
Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)
According to the DSCA, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States requested an FICS consisting of 154 communications nodes, 24 ...
China sentences Taiwanese professor to four years in jail
Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)
It comes a month after Shih Cheng-ping, a former chief economist for Chinese conglomerate Huaxia Group, made a televised "confession" on state media. The retire...
Top US official to visit Taiwan: premier
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler will visit to discuss international cooperation on environmental issues, said Premier Su Tseng-chang....
Taiwan pulls plug on China-friendly news channel
Nov 18, 2020 (AFP)
The unanimous decision by the National Communications Commission targeting CTi is the first time it has rejected a news channel's licence. Regulators took aim a...
Trolls get creative after WHO censors Taiwan
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
The deluge came after Taiwan politicians and social media users shared screenshots showing messages containing "Taiwan" or "Taiwan can help" failing to upload u...
Trump election loss robs Taiwan of a powerful, belligerent friend
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
Over the last four years, Trump's unpredictability and often confrontational attitude towards China over trade, the coronavirus and Hong Kong have earned him fa...
Taiwan says not invited to WHO meeting after Chinese 'obstruction'
Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)
The self-ruled island of 23 million has seen remarkable success in combating the pandemic -- with only seven deaths and fewer than 600 confirmed cases -- as man...
'China is angry': Taiwan anxiety rises as sabre-rattling grows
Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan has learned to live with the warnings of Beijing's authoritarian leaders that they are ready and willing to seize a place it views as part of ...
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