Lai Ching-te

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China launched another series of live-fire drills near Taiwan on Tuesday, warning ships to stay away from the Pingtan Islands region off the southern coast of China.

Chinese land, sea, air, and rocket forces held massive joint military exercises around Taiwan on Monday. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said these intimidating drills were meant as a “stern warning to the separatist acts of ‘Taiwan independence’ forces.”

Nearly 70 percent of Taiwanese would be “very willing or somewhat willing” to take up arms in the event of a Chinese communist invasion.

Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te on Thursday announced a proposed defense budget of $19.76 billion in U.S. dollars for the 2025 fiscal year.

The Taiwanese coast guard said on Tuesday that Chinese forces seized a fishing boat operating near Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands.

A cybersecurity team called the Insikt Group found that Chinese hackers intensified their attacks on Taiwan during its presidential election.

Taiwan held various public events on Tuesday to observe the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to meet with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun in Singapore this weekend, holding the first face-to-face bilateral defense meeting in 18 months.

China stepped up its “punishment” military drill around Taiwan on Friday, staging mock missile attacks and bombing runs.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China on Thursday launched two days of aggressive military drills around Taiwan.

President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan, often known by his Western name William Lai, delivered his inaugural address on Monday morning.

A brawl erupted in the Taiwanese parliament on Friday during a heated debate over reforms to the legislature.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping hosted former President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou, declaring that Taiwan is not a separate entity from China.

Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years during rush hour on Wednesday, with nine dead, 50 missing, and over 800 injuries reported.

Taiwan’s outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday inaugurated two new additions to the Taiwanese navy, a pair of indigenously produced corvettes with stealth capabilities that were designed to threaten much larger ships, including aircraft carriers.

Taiwan’s National Security Bureau director says China will increase intimidation efforts against Lai Ching-te’s administration.

China’s unwelcome Lunar New Year gift to Taiwan was an enormous swarm of 16 mysterious weather balloons, several of which passed over land.

Hu Xijin, the ultra-nationalist former editor of China’s state-run Global Times and now an editorialist, said in Monday’s edition of his Hu Says video blog that Taiwan and the United States could provoke a war by pushing for Taiwanese independence under newly elected President William Lai Ching-te.

The Chinese Communist government sent a threatening message to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., on Tuesday, warning that he was “playing with fire” by congratulating William Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan’s presidential election over the weekend.

Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.

President Joe Biden offered no words of congratulations or support to Taiwanese President-elect Lai Ching-te following his election victory on Saturday, telling reporters simply that America does “not support independence.”