Surangel Whipps Jr., the president of Palau, is currently visiting Taiwan as part of a diplomatic delegation intended to mark the start of a “travel bubble” between Taiwan and Palau...
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...
US president Joe Biden announced a 100-day review of US supply chains last month, in the hopes of locating points of economic dependency on China. This will include evaluating supply chains for microchips, rare earth metals, pharmaceuticals, batteries for electric cars, and other items...
Chinese president Xi Jinping spoke with newly inaugurated American president Joe Biden by telephone over the Lunar New Year in the first telephone call between the American and Chinese presidents to take place since the Biden administration came to power...
The Biden administration surprised over the weekend, issuing a statement on Taiwan on Sunday in response to an incursion of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone by thirteen Chinese warplanes on Saturday. The statement expressed “concern” regarding “the pattern of ongoing PRC attempts to intimidate its neighbors, including Taiwan"...
On January 9, outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that all restrictions on official contacts with Taiwanese officials were terminated. Applause radiated from Taipei. Joseph Wu, writing for Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, thanked the Secretary and Congress for the lifting of restrictions on the US-Taiwan relationship...
The presidential inauguration of Joe Biden took place earlier today. The inauguration took place after several turbulent weeks that saw some Republican members of Congress attempt to invalidate the results of 2020 presidential elections, an attempted invasion of the US Capitol to prevent the confirmation of the electoral vote by Trump supporters, and the impeachment of then-president Donald Trump after the US Capitol storming...
A planned visit to Taiwan by America’s ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, was abruptly canceled earlier today. Diplomatic visits by other members of the Trump administration, including a planned visit by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Belgium, were also canceled...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the lifting of self-imposed restrictions on contacts between the American and Taiwanese governments earlier today in a move that took many by surprise...