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Toplines Taiwan’s main opposition parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), are preventing Taiwan from acquiring systems critical to modern warfare. Deadlock in Taiwan’s…
China wants the world to hear only one version of Taiwan’s story: Beijing’s. And much of the world is listening to this version.
President Trump’s decision to pause arms sales to Taiwan will embolden China and weaken deterrence.
Wu Yongping is one of mainland China’s leading specialists on Taiwan affairs and dean of the Institute for Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Here, he shares his views on signals from the Xi-Trump summit, and discusses peaceful reunification between the mainland and Taiwan and how it …
Beijing is not seeking a breakthrough on Taiwan at the Trump-Xi summit, but rather incremental gains that could gradually weaken Taiwan-U.S. ties.
China’s pressure on Taiwan increasingly relies on vessels that aren’t warships. Instead, Beijing is deploying a maritime grey-zone fleet: a network of civilian and paramilitary vessels used to harass, intimidate and probe Taiwan while remaining ...
In Poland's tech strategy, Taiwan is filling in for projects once envisioned for China and the U.S.
China managed to secure Taiwan’s exclusion from a Track 2 platform designed to address maritime ecology. It’s a worrying escalation of China’s political warfare.
As US President Donald Trump prepares to visit China, Taiwan is again one of the most sensitive issues in US-China relations. For Washington, this is not only a question about the Taiwan Strait. It is a strategic choice that bears on whether the United States can avoid a comprehensive conflict with …
Divisions in Taiwan over how to approach China and how closely the island should align with the United States risk undermining important investments in defense and resilience.
Historical links between the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan and the Philippines are dovetailing with present-day geopolitical concerns.
When Australians think about Taiwan, the focus is often narrow: a distant sovereignty dispute in the Taiwan Strait, or a potential flashpoint between China and the United States. This framing understates the scale of what ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping likely to seek concessions on arms sales to Taiwan, analysts say.
Taiwan's agriculture ministry is worried that Beijing wants to weaponise a local specialty: the atemoya.
Taiwan’s main opposition leader hailed US President Donald Trump’s recent comments opposing the island’s independence as a “relatively positive first step” towards reducing tensions. Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), told the South China Morning Post on Sunday in an exclusive intervi…
In 2026, Beijing is making international engagement with Taiwan more costly. China has long sought to narrow Taiwan’s international space and make unification appear inevitable without resorting to force. But this year, that campaign has ...
The Chinese leader cautions the US president that disagreement over Taiwan could send relations down a dangerous path.
Thousands rally in Taipei backing higher defence spending after US pauses $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Beijing has reiterated its firm opposition to any official interactions between Washington and Taiwan, following Donald Trump’s remarks that he would be open to speaking with the person “running” the island, William Lai Ching-te. “China’s opposition to official US exchanges with China’s Taiwan regio…
Pingtan is marketed as mainland China's “closest point to Taiwan.” Today, the cross-strait ties that once made the island a thriving location for exchanges have all but disappeared.
The populations of China and Taiwan are drifting apart in ways that will be structurally hard to reverse.
Lai says Taiwan will not provoke conflict with China, but will not forsake its dignity or democratic values.
Toplines CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping met with US President Donald Trump from May 13 to 15. The two discussed global flashpoints, including Taiwan and the…
Toplines US President Donald Trump stated that US arms sales to Taiwan were under consideration and suggested that they could be used as a “negotiating chip”…
China appears to be taking advantage of its temporary trade truce with the United States to squeeze Taiwan harder and in more ways. Since the two countries in May agreed to build a ‘constructive relationship ...
US weapons sales to Taiwan have been longstanding source of tension with Beijing, which claims island as its territory.
Toplines Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun reiterated standard PRC rhetoric during her April 10 meeting with CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. The PRC is…
Trump tells reporters he is still deciding fate of new Taiwan weapons package, says not "asking for any favors" on Iran.
China has expanded its maritime operations around Taiwan to include non-naval vessels. In doing so, its efforts to assert authority over the island have stepped up significantly. By normalising its claim of jurisdiction to the ...
China issued a “strong protest” after a Japanese destroyer, travelling to military exercises in the Philippines, passed through the Taiwan Strait on the anniversary of an 1895 treaty ceding the island to Japan. Friday’s voyage was a “deliberate provocation”, said Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China’s …
Lai Ching-te succeeded in making his visit to Taiwan’s lone ally in Africa just weeks after China forced a high-profile cancellation of his original itinerary.
Toplines Taiwanese Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Han Kuo-yu and a multipartisan Taiwanese delegation met with US members of Congress to advocate for Taiwan’s international participation and…
In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of the island. “It is imperative to prepare a plan for the comprehensive takeover of Taiwan afte…
Beijing’s assessment of whether US President Donald Trump can “properly handle” the Taiwan issue and US-China relations will largely come down to arms sales to the island, analysts said. Following the summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Trump said on Friday that he discussed arms sales t…
Perhaps the strongest sign that Taiwan was on the verge of a strategic breakthrough came in early May, when the Taiwanese legislature, led by the China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT), passed a pared-down version of the special ...
Hainan is today engaged in what may be China’s most radical economic experiment since the 1980s – and Taiwan is part of the rationale.
Wu Yongping is one of the Chinese mainland’s leading specialists on Taiwan affairs and dean of the Institute for Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Here he shares his views on signals from the Xi-Trump summit, and discusses peaceful reunification between the mainland and Taiwan and ho…
President’s remarks about Taiwan arms deals being a ‘negotiating chip’ with Beijing have been seized on by Chinese state media It has been an unsettling few days for Taiwan’s government. When Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, many feared the unpredictable US leader could upend Wash…
Donald Trump hopes to have China help him end the war in Iran, but this goal seemed far from guaranteed as he wrapped up his two-day visit to Beijing. Xi Jinping, in turn, took the chance to warn the US over Taiwan.
Beijing is learning a lot from Iran’s Hormuz Strait closure and how it could apply Tehran’s methods to a future conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan.
Opinion polling shows that trust in Tokyo is surprisingly deep.
Taiwanese industry groups and businesses have broadly welcomed Beijing’s package of 10 measures to promote cross-strait exchanges across economic sectors. They said the proposals from the Communist Party’s Taiwan affairs authorities could help ease pressures weighing on local industries in recent ye…
Trump visits Beijing for high-stakes summit with Xi as Iran, trade and Taiwan strain US-China ties.
The Fujian’s Taiwan Strait transit highlights both the progress and the limits of China’s carrier ambitions.
Taiwan has accused Beijing of escalating tensions after mainland Chinese coastguard and survey vessels carried out law-enforcement operations in waters off the island’s east coast. Over the weekend, mainland China’s transport ministry announced a “special maritime traffic law enforcement operation” …
Beijing has completed a seabed survey in the complex waters east of Taiwan, its latest move to strengthen management of the waters around Taiwan following maritime border talks between Japan and the Philippines, according to state media. It is the first time mainland Chinese maritime authorities hav…