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Taiwan FM resigns after Burkina Faso cuts ties
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
"As a government official, I must be responsible for policies, and I have verbally tendered my resignation to the president," Wu told a press conference. Wu add...
Taiwan leader lashes China after Burkina Faso cuts ties
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
The move, which has been welcomed by China, comes after the Dominican Republic switched recognition to Beijing earlier this month, leaving Taiwan with only 18 d...
UN curtailing Taiwanese media freedom: Taipei
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
"Denying the freedom of journalists to cover the meetings of the World Health Assembly is a violation of their freedoms," health and welfare minister Chen Shih-...
Taiwan pleads for access to key WHO meeting
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
China sees self-governing democratic Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification and has used its clout to diminish the island's presence on the worl...
Gap 'terribly sorry' over China map shirt omitting Taiwan
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
China, which considers Taiwan a rebel province awaiting reunification, has taken airlines, hotels and other companies to task in recent months for listing the i...
China sends fighter jets and bombers near Taiwan in latest show of force
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
Taiwan's defence ministry said multiple H-6K bombers, reconnaissance planes and transport aircraft flew over the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan, and over the Mi...
Taiwan hits back at WHO exclusion under Beijing pressure
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
China sees self-governing democratic Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification and has used its clout to diminish the island's presence on the worl...
US takes to Chinese social media over 'Orwellian' demand
May 07, 2018 (AFP)
The US embassy posted on its official Weibo account the Mandarin translation of a White House statement that dismissed China's request to foreign air carriers a...
Haiti maintains ties with Taiwan at Beijing's expense
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
"Every country is moving in one direction or another, but for now, it is with Taiwan that Haiti has diplomatic relations," said Haitian communications minister ...
Dominican Republic breaks with Taiwan to establish ties with China
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
Taipei said it was "deeply upset" at the decision, which it blamed on "dollar diplomacy". The move deepens the island's international isolation while its giant ...
Taiwan court upholds jail term for Chinese student spy
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
The decision comes as cross-strait tensions rise, with China accusing Taiwan of moves towards formal independence. The self-ruling democratic island has never f...
China sends bombers around Taiwan in new show of force
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
H-6K bombers, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance planes and several types of fighter jets took off from multiple airports for "combat drills", the air force...
Taiwan veterans clash with police in pension protest
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Hundreds gathered outside the legislature's main entrance and some threw smoke bombs and water bottles at police guarding the building in central Taipei. They a...
Taiwan to stage live-fire drill simulating China invasion
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
China's growing military is increasingly flexing its muscles and held live-fire drills last week in the Taiwan Strait -- the narrow waterway separating the Chin...
China carries out aircraft carrier drills in Pacific as Taiwan tensions rise
Apr 21, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing's sole aircraft carrier and two destroyer ships carried out "offensive and defensive drills to test their combat muscle" on Friday, China's navy said on...
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over military pension cuts
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
The clashes came as a draft bill proposed by the cabinet earlier this month was deliberated in parliament for the first time, following a protest by military re...
China flies bombers around Taiwan, holds live-fire drills
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
China sees the democratically-governed island as a renegade part of its territory to be brought back into the fold and has not ruled out reunification by force....
China holds live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing had announced the drills last week, further ramping up tensions following stark warnings against any independence moves by the self-ruled island which C...
China to hold military drills in Taiwan Strait
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
It is the first such exercise in the waterway since 2016, and it coincides with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to Swaziland, one of the self-ruled isl...
Taiwan president watches naval drill as China tensions grow
Apr 13, 2018 (AFP)
Relations between self-ruling Taiwan and China have deteriorated since Tsai Ing-wen came to power almost two years ago, largely because she refuses to accept th...
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