Taiwan and China
A Chinese official violently shoves a US reporter
Before the opening ceremony of the G20 summit, on November 14, a Chinese official brutally treated an American female reporter when she was trying to ask Joe Biden if he had raised the human rights issue with Xi Jinping. White House officials promptly restrained the Chinese official. Public opinion said ...
Chinese regime threatens Lithuanian retaliation for rapprochement with Taiwan
The Chinese communist regime and Lithuania have been at odds since 2021. The regime apparently does not recognize Lithuania as an independent and democratic country, responsible for making its own decisions. In 2021, it removed some Lithuanian products from the list of authorized importers and in 2022, it went further, ...
High-ranking US FCC official visits Taiwan
This week, Brendan Carr, one of the five U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members, will be in Taiwan to support and discuss cybersecurity, telecommunications, and 5G with the local government. Also, his visit is expected to develop relations between the two democratic countries further. "Everything that we can do as Americans ...
With Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female PM, will the country’s stance towards China and Taiwan change?
Bilateral relations between Italy and China were strengthened in 2019 with the signing of the Belt and Road agreement between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The memorandum between the two countries was at the center of public criticism in Italy. The biggest fear of Italian business groups ...
Chinese regime infiltrated Thailand? Taiwan national security director confidential data revealed
Taiwan's security director went to Thailand in July to meet with local intelligence officials. An ordinary visit, however, what caught the attention of several Taiwanese local media is that private information about the official's itinerary, even when he was going through immigration, was published on the internet. Taiwanese media, Liberty Times ...
‘China would be making an enormous mistake to invade Taiwan’: US Air Force Secretary
In an interview published by CBS, U.S. President Joe Biden said that the U.S. would defend Taiwan against "an unprecedented attack." Furthermore, the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Karl Thomas, affirmed that the international community would also intervene in the event of a possible attack. In addition, the U.S. ...
CIA Director affirms: Xi Jinping wants to invade Taiwan by 2027
Several China-Taiwan experts and analysts are saying that Xi Jinping's military remains a threat to the island nation, despite all the warnings from Taiwan's allies of a possible counterattack on China. The Pentagon's report published in 2021 (Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China) revealed that the People's ...
Chinese semiconductor company that infiltrated Taiwan convicted
Taiwan has become the essential semiconductor manufacturing industry in the world, chosen by several leaders in the manufacture of devices, such as Samsung, Google, and Apple. Chinese companies, however, have lagged and, even with great efforts, have not been able to catch up. Taiwan's success and expertise in the semiconductor industry ...
Xi Jinping’s confusing signal on Taiwan: Strategy or weakness?
After weeks out of the public eye, Chinese leader Xi Jinping showed up at the national monument commemorating the defeat of the Kuomintang nationalist army and the beginning of the Communist Party's predominance over Imperial China. Is this public appearance by Xi at a place of historical significance for the Communist ...
CCP seeks revenge and punishes Taiwan’s economy with more restrictions
Despite warnings from the Chinese regime, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, arrived in Taiwan, and now the Asian giant is trying to punish Taiwan. The CCP found a way to "get even" with Taiwan by banning importing more than 100 food products, directly targeting Taiwan's food industry, ...
Conducting live-fire drills in Fujian to show great power, Beijing was laughed at again
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation to visit Asia on July 29. Taiwan may be the expected destination of the delegation, making the CCP discontented. It is not clear whether Pelosi will visit Taiwan, but on July 30, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted live-fire drills ...
Taiwan Strait tensions: Is the CCP applying Sun Tzu’s Art of War?
Tensions escalate in the Taiwan Strait, with rising risks of war. So why does Taiwan, a little island with only 24 million people, attract so much attention and 'devotion' from Beijing? Is the Chinese Communist Party applying Sun Tzu's Art of War to delude the whole world? This in-depth analysis ...
US and Japan reaffirm alliance amid China and North Korea concerns
U.S. lawmakers traveling to Japan on Saturday, April 16, reaffirmed a working alliance to jointly confront the threat posed by North Korea and China amid growing global tension. The six lawmakers, led by South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who agreed that they should ...
Pompeo urges US to recognize Taiwan, condemns Chinese regime’s ‘malign acts’
Local think tank Prospect Foundation hosted a speech at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei hosted on Friday, March 4, for former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo said, "It is my view that the U.S. government should immediately take necessary, and long-overdue, steps to do the right and ...
China opposes US warship transiting through Taiwan Strait
China has warned that the U.S. will have to pay a heavy price after the U.S. Navy sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait amid the war between Russia and Ukraine. At a regular press conference on March 1, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wen Bin said: “If the US wants ...
China-Russia relation poses ‘greatest strategic threat’ to US, says Former US security adviser
At CPAC held in Orlando on Feb. 26, former deputy national security adviser Kathleen Troia McFarland made comments on China and Russia in an interview with the “China Insider” program. She said that the greatest strategic threat is the China-Russia alliance.McFarland explained that the combination of Chinese technology, money, and its ...
Political experts analyse Xi and Putin fatal mistake and Russia-Ukraine impact
What impact will the Russian-Ukrainian war have on US-China relations and Xi Jinping's personal political destiny? Jerome Alan Cohen is a retired law professor at New York University. Professor Cohen is also a China expert and a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Cohen said to ...
China denounces US delegation visit to Taiwan
A delegation of former senior U.S. defense and security officials, led by former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, visited Taipei on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:13 PM. China later denounced the visit. This is a concrete move by the U.S. to demonstrate its firm security commitment to Taiwan, especially ...
Experts debate over the possibility of the Chinese regime to attack Taiwan after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Decades of peace between the European mainland countries came to an end on a haunting night marked by a speech by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Massive explosions quickly occurred throughout the capital, Kyiv, and the Russian army attacked Ukraine as the world had predicted. CNN quoted NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg saying, ...
Latent threat: US sends high-profile entourage to Taiwan amid fears of Chinese invasion
Amid growing fears that China is taking advantage of Western distractions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict to attempt an invasion of the island of Taiwan, the United States on Tuesday, March 1, sent a delegation to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen. The Chinese regime described this visit as 'useless', Taiwan News ...
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