Taiwan Pledges 100,000 Masks Per Week for the U.S.
While China has begun an information campaign to try to blame coronavirus on the U.S., Taiwan has pledged to send 100,000 masks per week.
While China has begun an information campaign to try to blame coronavirus on the U.S., Taiwan has pledged to send 100,000 masks per week.
Vice President Mike Pence canceled plans to visit the Solomon Islands this week after the country switched its allegiance from sovereign Taiwan to China, according to a report.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen gave an address for National Day – essentially Taiwan’s version of the Fourth of July – on Wednesday unsparingly critical of China without being overtly confrontational. The key element of the speech was an appeal to the free world for protection from China’s increasingly predatorial approach to the island.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday blasted China for bullying El Salvador to break diplomatic ties with Taiwan — the third diplomatic ally to do so under pressure from China this year.
In a speech from Taipei on Tuesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to defy pressure from Beijing and join with like-minded nations to fight “China’s increasingly out-of-control international behavior.”
An 18-year-old unemployed man in northeastern China used social media recently to ask, “What law says you can’t call Taiwan a country?” He soon got his answer when Chinese police detained him, citing a law against “profaning the people’s feelings.”
The Dominican Republic announced on Monday that it will break diplomatic ties with Taiwan, establish diplomatic relations with mainland China, and recognize Taiwan as an “inalienable part of Chinese territory.” The move came after China offered the Dominican Republic a $3 billion investment and loan package, and fits neatly into China’s strategy of isolating Taiwan.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was on hand for a military drill on Friday, a day after China held the largest naval drill in its history in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. China also indicated this week that it will hold live-fire drills in the Straits of Taiwan.
President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act on Saturday, bringing a round of applause from Taiwanese officials and citizens plus the expected statement of disapproval from China.
China reacted with fury after the U.S. Senate passed the Taiwan Travel Act on Wednesday, condemning it as a serious violation of the “One China” principle and stepping up its efforts to isolate Taipei. In fact, the Taiwanese interpret some of China’s warnings as threats of military action.
China lodged strong objections to the Taiwan Travel Act this week as it emerged from the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week and headed for a vote. China warns that the bill, which would enable American officials to travel to Taiwan for meetings with their counterparts and vice versa, would damage relations between America and China and threaten regional stability.
The Heritage Foundation held an event to discuss Taiwan’s role in international organizations on Thursday, with an emphasis on the way China is using its growing economic and diplomatic clout to block Taiwanese membership in vital organizations related to health, safety, and security.
Despite China’s demands to deny her entry, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen made a scheduled stopover in Hawaii on Saturday, en route to the Pacific Islands. During her visit, she promised to boost Taiwan’s defense spending, prompting the outraged Chinese Communist Party organ Global Times to condemn her transit of U.S. territory as “deplorable.”
The government of Taiwan declared on Wednesday that the people of the island will “absolutely” reserve the right to determine their own future, in the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for the island to be returned to Beijing’s control, in a manner that implied military force was not out of the question for accomplishing that objective.
The government of Taiwan is planning to request the purchase of new fighter aircraft from the United States, The Guardian reported, just as it completes the transfer of two decommissioned U.S. Navy frigates.
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal published an interview with President-elect Donald Trump in which he once again challenged the “One China” policy that regards Taiwan as a temporarily estranged province of China.
Reuters reports some pushback against President-elect Donald Trump from both the Obama White House and senior Republican senator John McCain over Trump’s comments on China and Taiwan.
In a television interview over the weekend, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said there was “serious concern” in Beijing about President-elect Donald Trump’s policy toward Taiwan.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce communist China’s economic and military policies following his direct call with Taiwan’s democratically elected president. Critics have protested that the call bypassed a longstanding diplomatic protocol known as the “One China” policy.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while commenting on the controversy over the phone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, MSNBC anchor and commentator Andrea Mitchell said China was now concerned about its future diplomatic relationship
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” RNC chairman and incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said President Donald Trump, “knew exactly what was happening” during his telephone conversation with Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen. Partial transcript as follows; DICKERSON:
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while commenting on the controversy over the phone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice Present-elect Mike Pence said it was “a little mystifying” President Barack Obama Cuban dictator Raul Castro and
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan personally sent off a naval warship Wednesday morning to patrol Taiping Island, a Taiwanese territory in the South China Sea that Taipei fears they could lose as a result of Tuesday’s verdict rejecting China’s claims