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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…
Taiwan holds military drills to prepare for invasion by China
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.
China’s pressure campaign against Taiwan doesn’t end when a country switches recognition to Beijing.
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.
The exercise highlighted increasing tensions in the waters east of Taiwan, which are also close to Japan and the Philippines.
Toplines Taiwan’s Executive Yuan proposed a supplementary budget aimed at accelerating the development and procurement project timelines within Taiwan’s domestic defense industry. The supplementary budget would…
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.
The UN has raised fresh alarm over the climate crisis at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau, amid China-Taiwan tensions.
Most people assume that China’s cyber capabilities define the totality of its threat to Taiwan, but this simply does not capture the full picture.
Chinese Foreign Ministry cites national sovereignty and Taiwan separatist activities as reasons behind the measures.
“Separatists” and the United States are putting Taiwan in greater danger, China’s state broadcaster CCTV warned on Friday after Washington’s de facto ambassador said the island could convince a potential adversary that landing forces would be very difficult. Raymond Greene, the director of the Ameri…
New law enforcement operations could quickly escalate into a blockade of Taiwan, say analysts.
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.
Toplines Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (LY) passed a NT$240 billion (US$7.3 billion) six-year budget for the procurement and development of unmanned systems. Taiwan’s legislature passed the opposition…
Beijing-Taipei tensions a feature at meeting in Palau, with Australia and New Zealand saying the forum – not another country – will determine who attends China said it had serious concerns about Taiwan’s presence at the annual Pacific Islands Forum in Palau, warning of “consequences” after the de…
Historical links between the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan and the Philippines are dovetailing with present-day geopolitical concerns.
The China Coast Guard has apparently established a regular presence in the waters east of Taiwan, asserting Beijing’s jurisdictional claim.
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.
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.
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…
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.
In 2025, Michael Hunzeker and Yuster Yu wrote, “Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War With China is Cultural,” where they argued major cultural changes were needed in both Taiwan’s military and civilian society if it were to be competitive in a conflict with Chi…
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.
Eswatini is one of 12 countries, and the only one in Africa, that has diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Taiwan has staged live-fire drills with missiles and attack drones as Donald Trump prepares to host China’s Xi Jinping.
China is ramping up its presence around Taiwan, in a pattern that Taipei said is designed to 'alter the status quo'.
Potential Japanese acquisition of nuclear weapons is an under-appreciated deterrent to a Chinese attempt at seizing Taiwan. If China took Taiwan, Japan would surely activate what we must presume to be well-established plans to rapidly ...
Taiwan has long prepared for a Chinese military invasion but wars in Iran and Ukraine expose new potential threats.
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”…
Taiwan's GDP is soaring on back of US imports of AI chips, but experts warn that problems could arise with Trump, China.
Toplines Taiwan is demonstrating tactical lessons learned from the war in Ukraine in its military exercises. Integrating unmanned systems with traditional platforms will be critical for…
What look like indications of U.S. abandonment of Taiwan are relatively superficial, while substantive investment in capabilities that could deter China continues apace.