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Taiwan blacksmith turns Chinese artillery shells into knives
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
Known locally as "Maestro Wu", his workshop on the island of Kinmen -- which lies just two miles from the Chinese mainland -- is a vivid reminder of the threat ...
Pilot killed as Taiwan fighter jet crashes into sea
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
Pilot Chu Kuang-meng ejected from the F-5E jet after reporting an engine malfunction shortly after take-off, the air force said. The 29-year-old was rescued fro...
US plays down China sanctions over Taiwan arms
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
China said Monday it would impose sanctions on Lockheed Martin and a defense division of Boeing that are part of a new sale of missiles to Taiwan worth nearly $...
US announces $2.4 bn sale of coastal defense systems to Taiwan
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement came just hours after Beijing said it would sanction US firms involved in an earlier arms sales to the democratic self-ruled island. The propos...
China issues retaliation threat over $1.4B sales of U.S. arms to Taiwan
Oct 23, 2020 (UPI)
"The move seriously damages relations between the two countries and the two militaries, as well as the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. China firml...
China threatens retaliation over US-Taiwan arms sale
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
The US State Department said on Wednesday it had approved the sale of 135 air-to-ground missiles to Taiwan in a move Taipei's defence ministry said would build ...
US to sell air-to-ground missiles to Taiwan
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
The State Department said it had agreed to sell 135 of the precision-guided, air-launched AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missiles. Also approved was the sale of six MS-...
Cake fight: Taiwan, China officials scuffle at Fiji soiree
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
Taipei accused two Chinese officials of gatecrashing an event at the luxurious Grand Pacific Hotel in the Fijian capital Suva on October 8 and assaulting an emp...
Trump aide urges Taiwan to 'fortify' against Chinese attack
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien told the Aspen Security Forum that a missile attack by China, which regards Taiwan as a rebel ...
US destroyer sails through Taiwan Strait, provoking China
Oct 15, 2020 (AFP)
Ties between Beijing and Washington have deteriorated in recent months, over issues including trade and Hong Kong, with the self-ruled island of Taiwan a long-r...
Taobao Taiwan to close after China-registration row
Oct 15, 2020 (AFP)
The move comes as relations between Taipei and Beijing have grown increasingly strained as the island looks to maintain its distance from the Asian superpower. ...
Taiwan convicts retired soldier for China spying
Oct 15, 2020 (AFP)
Tu Yung-hsin was convicted on Wednesday of violating national security laws by trying to build a spy network for Beijing and recruit another lieutenant colonel ...
Taiwan rejects China spy claims as 'creating terror'
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing's security agents have cracked down on "hundreds" of spying cases linked to Taiwan and arrested "a batch of Taiwanese spies and their accomplices", acco...
Taiwanese detained in China 'confesses' on state TV
Oct 11, 2020 (AFP)
Relatives of Lee Meng-chu had said he went missing after crossing from Hong Kong into Shenzhen on August 19, 2019. Hong Kong was then in the throes of months-lo...
Taiwan urges China to 'never seek hegemony' and ease tensions
Oct 10, 2020 (AFP)
In a speech on Taiwan's national day, President Tsai Ing-wen said the international community was becoming concerned about the "expanding hegemony" of China. Be...
U.S. official tells Taiwan it needs a bigger military budget
Oct 07, 2020 (UPI)
David Henley, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, told the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference that Taiwan's ...
Tsai defiant as Taiwan's anti-China jet flights double
Oct 06, 2020 (AFP)
Authoritarian China views democratic Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary, even though the island has been self-...
Chinese warplanes buzz Taiwan for third straight day
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
Two Chinese Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft entered Taiwan's southwest air defence identification zone (ADIZ) the ministry said in a statement, adding its jets had ...
China 'must back off', says Taiwan
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
Foreign minister Joseph Wu urged Beijing to "return to the civilised international standards" after a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said there was no so-ca...
Taiwan scrambles fighters again, as China says independence 'doomed to fail'
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
Two Chinese Y-8 anti-submarine planes intruded into Taiwan's southwest air defence identification zone (ADIZ), the defence ministry said. Last week, Chinese fig...
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