With the 2022 Beijing Olympics mere months away, it is up in the air as to whether Taiwan will boycott the Olympics in some form. The 2022 Beijing Olympics will take place from February 4th to February 20th next year...
A virtual meeting on Monday between US president Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping did not lead to any shift in policy on both sides, with both sides instead primarily reiterating their positions...
US president Joe Biden met with Chinese president Xi Jinping today in a virtual meeting. This was one of the most high-profile meetings between the leaders of the world’s two superpowers since Biden took office, with Xi having not left China in around two years. As a result, Xi was not in attendance at the COP26 summit on global carbon emissions, something that was criticized by Biden. The meeting took place on what was Tuesday morning in China and Monday evening in the US...
Taiwan applied to join the CPTPP last week. This took place less than a week after China applied to join the CPTPP, making for somewhat of a surprise timing on the part of the Tsai administration, though it was known that such plans had been in the works for some time...
28 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone yesterday. This sets a new record in terms of the number of Chinese warplanes dispatched to Taiwan’s ADIZ, breaking a record that was set in April by 25 Chinese warplanes...
A fake agreement between the Taiwanese and Japanese governments was circulated on social media last week, claiming that the Taiwanese government had agreed to take on wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The incident led to a response from the Presidential Office and has led to warnings that Chinese disinformation efforts directed at Taiwan could be growing more sophisticated...
25 Chinese planes entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone yesterday. This marks the largest incursion by Chinese planes into airspace near Taiwan to date, after a year which has seen an increase in the occurrence of Chinese flybys to a nearly daily basis during some months...
Comments by Admiral Phillip Davidson, the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, prompted alarm in Taiwan earlier this week after he stated that China could invade Taiwan within six years. The comments were made in the context of a hearing held by the Armed Services Committee of the US Senate...
