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The speaker of the Czech Parliament´s lower house is set to visit Taiwan to boost mutual ties, a step that has angered China.

The Vatican and Taiwan celebrated 80 years of diplomatic relations this week with a Rome event featuring the Taiwanese ambassador to the Holy See and the Vatican’s foreign minister.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday as she was en route to Taiwan for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “emboldened” right now and that the United States has to step to stop them.

For the second year in a row, the Venice Film Festival in Italy is siding with China by erasing the existence of Taiwan, with the festival’s official programming referring to the independent country as “Taipei,” the capital city.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) landed in Taipei, Taiwan, late Tuesday evening local time in defiance of the Biden administration’s and China’s warnings not to go.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je awarded at least one local couple a cash prize of $1,753 on Monday for agreeing to marry by the end of the year as part of a Taiwanese government campaign to boost the nation’s flagging birth rate, the Taipei Times reported on Tuesday.

British MPs are planning to visit Taiwan in February in open defiance of China’s demand that other nations not engage with the country.

Taipei announced on Thursday it had formally opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania using the name of Taiwan.

A former Australian PM has accused China of being a bully and expressed enthusiastic support for Taiwan while visiting the island.

The head of a French delegation of senators on Thursday called Taiwan a “country” during a visit to Taipei.

A delegation of French senators arrived in Taiwan, where they will hold talks with President Tsai Ing-wen, despite strong protests from China.

Seven staff members at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Hong Kong returned to Taiwan on Sunday after they refused to sign a Hong Kong government-issued “One China” pledge negating Taiwanese sovereignty and were subsequently denied work visas by the Beijing-controlled city, the Taipei Times reported Monday.

The United States government plans to donate 750,000 doses of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine to Taiwan, a delegation of U.S. senators visiting Taipei announced on Sunday.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged people in Taiwan not to hoard food and masks on Saturday after a recent Chinese coronavirus lockdown order in Taipei and its surrounding area caused residents to panic buy basic household supplies. Taiwan’s government raised

A crowd estimated to be hundreds marched on Saturday in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei to voice support for U.S. President Donald Trump and demonstrate opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

On his last day in Taiwan, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar visited the shrine of former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed the Taiwan Allies and International Protection and Enhancement Initiative Act, whose acronym in a remarkable coincidence spells out TAIPEI, the name of Taiwan’s capital.

PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech capital, Prague, on Monday signed a partnership agreement with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei – three months after cancelling a similar deal with Beijing and angering the Chinese government.

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) signed a deal with American defense contractor Lockheed Martin on Tuesday to build a maintenance facility for F-16 jet fighters, which Taiwan purchases from the U.S. for defense.

China’s worst nightmare may be happening: Mainland Chinese citizens are now participating in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, according to recent reports.

An enormous demonstration was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday to oppose Chinese authoritarianism and spotlight Taiwanese media outlets that spread Beijing’s ideology and propaganda.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Tensions between the Chinese communists on the mainland of China and capitalists here in the democracy Taiwan are rising, as on Wednesday a top official of the Taiwanese Republic of China government told Breitbart News that Taiwan will never “bow to” the communists on the mainland.

The State Department approved a $330 million deal to sell spare aircraft parts to Taiwan this week, the second such arms deal under Trump.

The State Department has recalled the ambassadors to three countries who recently cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan under pressure from China. 

The State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs referred to Taiwan as “Chinese Taipei” in a tweet Thursday — a bow to China’s demands that Taiwan not be recognized as a separate country but part of China.

The three biggest U.S. airlines – American, Delta, and United – finally caved on Tuesday to China’s demands and changed their websites to no longer describe Taiwan as a country distinct from China. It might at best be seen as partial capitulation at the last possible moment, as the airlines now list Taiwan’s capital of Taipei as a city without a country instead of “Taipei, Taiwan.”

The United States officially opened its new “American Institute in Taiwan” complex in Taipei on Tuesday, in a ceremony attended by senior U.S. and Taiwanese officials, including Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. China formally protested the ceremony as a “serious violation of the ‘One China’ principle” and said it “negatively impacts China-U.S. relations.”

A survey released by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy on Thursday suggested the vast majority of Taiwanese prefer to maintain the status quo in their uneasy relationship with China, but they are ready to fight if China attempts to impose reunification through military force.

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council is crying foul after Beijing indefinitely suspended screenings of the movie Missing Johnny, whose star Lawrence Ko has evidently been blacklisted for favoring Taiwanese independence.

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.

China has evidently exceeded its tolerance for democracy along its fringes. There are reports this week that a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist mysteriously vanished during a visit to Macau, while the leaders of 2014’s democracy protests in Hong Kong have been politely arrested.

A man attacked and beheaded a four-year-old girl in Taiwan as she and her mother headed to a metro station in Taipei.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tsai Ing-wen tallied up 56 percent of the vote to become Taiwan’s first female president on Saturday. Her election also marks the end of eight years in power for the Kuomintang Party, which was much more favorably aligned with China than Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party.

A flammable substance, possibly meant for use in a stage performance, exploded in midair at the Formosa Fun Coast water park in Taiwan on Saturday night, creating an immense fireball that injured at least 510 people, 183 of them badly enough to require intensive care at hospitals, according to CNN.