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...
Concerns have been raised in Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s exclusion from the recently inked RCEP, a regional multilateral free trade pact linking fifteen economies. The deal was signed on Sunday at the biannual ASEAN Summit, which was held in Vietnam this year, though much of the summit proceedings took place online because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...
China's military escalation toward Taiwan has visibly escalated in past weeks. Apart from military exercises conducted in the region, a visit to Taiwan by American Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach saw multiple consecutive days of warplanes sent into Taiwanese airspace...
A three-day to Taiwan by American Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach ended yesterday, though not without some controversy...
Plans for Taiwan to set up a representative office in Somaliland and, in turn, for Somaliland to set up a representative office in Taiwan have continued apace, despite pressure from China and Somalia. Taiwan’s representative office in Somaliland opened earlier this week, while Somaliland’s first representative to Taiwan, Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud, arrived earlier this month...
