Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te, right pose for photos with American Institute in Taiwan’s (AIT) director Greene F. Raymond in Taipei, Taiwan on July 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United States’ new top envoy to Taiwan promised on July 10 that Washington will help the self-ruled island defend itself as China ramps up … Read more
File picture of a J-15 Chinese fighter jet aboard the Shandong aircraft carrier during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) | Photo Credit: AP China sent more than 30 warplanes and a group of navy ships toward Taiwan, … Read more
An Air Force aircraft takes part in militarydrills by the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan, in this screengrab from a handout video released August 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Chinese military launched drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a “stern warning” over what it called collusion between “separatists and foreign … Read more
U.S. Marine Corp MGEN Eric Austin, U.S. Exercise Director Representative and Philippine Army MGEN Marvin Licudin, Philippine Exercise Director shake hands at the opening ceremonies of a joint military exercise between the United States and the Philippines on April 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP More than 17,000 Philippine and U.S. soldiers began their largest-ever … Read more
A Chinese warship fires at a target during a military drill near Fuzhou, Fujian Province, near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands that are close to the Chinese coast, China, April 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Chinese military announced exercises around Taiwan on April 8 in a new act of retaliation for a meeting between … Read more
In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Major general Huang Wen-chi, the assistant deputy chief of general staff for intelligence speaks during a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Amid speculation over alleged Chinese spy balloons, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it would shoot down any suspected … Read more
An Air Force aircraft under the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) takes off for military exercises in the waters around Taiwan, from an undisclosed locationin this file photo. Credit: Eastern Theatre Command/Handout via Reuters China’s military said it had carried out combat drills around Taiwan on Sunday, the second such exercises … Read more
Taiwan authorities are investigating a former deputy defence minister and several other serving and retired military officers over contacts with what authorities believe to be a Chinese spy, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The investigation is the most high-level case of suspected spying across the sensitive Taiwan strait in recent years … Read more
TAIPEI: China says it has captured people spying for rival Taiwan and cracked a series of espionage cases. Reports by state TV and other outlets Sunday said multiple suspects were detained but gave no numbers or identities for most of them. China and Taiwan split amid a civil war in 1949 and have extensive business … Read more
TAIPEI: The last two days of Chinese aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China‘s government, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday. Multiple Chinese aircraft flew across the midline of the Taiwan Strait and into Taiwan’s air defence … Read more