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Taiwan urges restraint after China plane enters defence zone
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
The Chinese military plane was spotted in the ADIZ on Sunday, according to the defence ministry. Chinese military aircraft have flown near the zone on seven oth...
Taiwan protests Indonesia deportations of suspects to China
Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)
The move comes days after Indonesian police said they had busted a sprawling $450 million cyber fraud ring targeting wealthy businessmen and politicians in Chin...
China slams US defence bill over Taiwan provision
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing has long objected to any military assistance from Washington to the self-governed island, which it considers a breakaway province. "China firmly opposes...
Beijing says US apologises for 'Republic of China' gaffe
Jul 10, 2017 (AFP)
Xi is president of the People's Republic of China, while the Republic of China is the official name for Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a breakaway province awa...
Taiwan charges Chinese grad student with spying
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
The indictment comes as officials warn of growing intelligence threats from China at a time of increasingly frosty ties between Taipei and Beijing. China still ...
China 'firmly' opposes US arms sale to Taiwan
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a press briefing that Beijing has lodged a formal protest with Washington and urged the US government to "uphold...
Washington approves $1.3 bn arms sale to Taiwan
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
The US official emphasized that there is "no change to our longstanding 'One China' policy" -- stating that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of i...
Taiwan offers cancer treatment to China dissident Liu
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
The offer came a day after China rejected criticism over its treatment of Liu, as the United States urged Beijing to give the paroled activist freedom to move a...
Taiwan slams UN after students barred from Geneva visit
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
It comes after Taiwan was excluded from a major World Health Organisation meeting last month under pressure from China, which still sees the island as part of i...
Panama cuts ties with Taiwan, switches to China
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
The move prompted an angry response from Taiwan and will likely further strain ties between Taipei and Beijing, which considers the self-ruled island a renegade...
China delivers diplomatic punch to Taiwan by winning over Panama
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
China, which considers self-ruled Taiwan a renegade province waiting to be reunited with the mainland, has been infuriated by President Tsai Ing-wen's refusal t...
China arrests Taiwanese activist for subversion
May 27, 2017 (AFP)
Lee Ming-che, a 42-year-old NGO worker, had been unreachable since March 19 after he entered the southeastern Chinese city of Zhuhai from Macau, according to Ta...
Taiwan war games simulate China invasion
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
The annual drills are Taiwan's biggest military exercise and mocked up a scenario in which Chinese troops launched an amphibious assault. They took place on the...
Barred from WHO meet, Taiwan urges global 'pressure' on China
May 21, 2017 (AFP)
The WHO's main annual meeting, the World Health Assembly (WHA), kicks off in Geneva on Monday, but for the first time in eight years, Taiwan will not be granted...
Game over? Taiwan's struggling Kuomintang
May 19, 2017 (AFP)
Founded by Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and later led by nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT is at its lowest ebb in its more than 100-year history as it ...
Taiwan sees fewer tourists as Chinese stay away
May 17, 2017 (AFP)
The number of Chinese tourists to the island has dropped since Beijing-sceptic President Tsai Ing-wen took office last May, with speculation China is turning of...
More trouble ahead for Taiwan's Tsai after rocky year
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
And in the face of an intransigent China and warming ties between Beijing and the United States -- Taiwan's most powerful ally -- observers say there is more tr...
Taiwan blames China for WHO invite snub
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
Delegates attending the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva later this month were supposed to receive their invites by Monday. Taiwan, which is fighting inter...
New China fears in Taiwan after Trump snub
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
Trump rattled China in December after taking a congratulatory call from the self-ruling island's new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen after his election, ...
Beijing gloats over Trump Taiwan snub
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
Trump rattled China in December after taking a congratulatory call from the self-ruling island's new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen after his election, ...
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