Taiwan investigators to rule on further detention of former presidential candidate amid graft probe
Taiwan investigators are to rule on whether to further detain a former presidential candidate amid graft allegations
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Taiwan investigators are to rule on whether to further detain a former presidential candidate amid graft allegations
September 01, 2024A typhoon killed has three people in Taiwan as it approaches the island where air travelers have rushed to board remaining overseas flights
July 24, 2024An approaching typhoon has prompted the cancellation of air force drills off Taiwan's east coast
July 23, 2024China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side
May 03, 2024China has sent dozens of warplanes and navy vessels off Taiwan's coast on the second day of a large exercise launched to show its anger over the island's inauguration of new leaders who refuse to accept Beijing's insistence that Taiwan is part of China
May 24, 2024Taiwan says it has scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert over drills China has announced around the self-governing island democracy
May 23, 2024China's military is accusing the U.S. of playing up for maximum political effect its warship's passage through the Taiwan Strait
May 09, 2024Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday
May 03, 2024The U.S. 7th Fleet says a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since Nov. 2022
April 17, 2024Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary
March 27, 2024Taiwan is protesting China’s boarding of a tourist boat as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies just off the Chinese coast but is controlled by Taiwan
February 20, 2024With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous Asian nations and overseas communities have welcomed the arrival of the Lunar New Year
February 10, 2024Retired U.S. officials have met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and praised the island's democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force
January 15, 2024With Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections less than two weeks away, the island's alternative party candidate and chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party, Ko Wen-je, is promoting a policy of patience toward China, which has been upping its threat to annex the island by force
January 04, 2024Weeks before Taiwan holds elections for its president and legislature, China has renewed its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory
December 28, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping haven't resolved any of the vital geopolitical issues dividing the world’s two largest economies
November 16, 2023Taiwan will take part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco this week, a rare opportunity for the self-governing island democracy of 23 million people and its high-tech economy to break the diplomatic embargo on it imposed by authoritarian China
November 15, 2023Taiwan says China has sent another 43 military aircraft and seven ships near the self-ruled island, the latest sign that Beijing plans no let-up in its campaign of harassment, threats and intimidation
November 01, 2023Three astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China's orbiting space station
October 31, 2023Analysts say the removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers appears to enforce leader Xi Jinping’s demand for total obedience and the elimination of any potential rivals within the ruling Communist Party
October 25, 2023Chinese state media are reporting that the country has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu
October 24, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine as well as Russian backing for China’s bid to expand its economic and diplomatic influence abroad through its decade-old “Belt and Road” initiative
October 17, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with Chinese leaders in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine
October 16, 2023Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two leaders of the island's tiny Taiwan People's Communist Party on accusations they colluded with China in an effort to influence next year's elections for president and members of the legislative assembly
October 04, 2023