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The Washington Post on Monday reported that concerns about China’s growing cyber-warfare assault on U.S. infrastructure systems are justified, as hackers linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have “burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.” 

During Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, Vivek Ramaswamy defended statements he made about arming Taiwanese citizens, noting that the Second Amendment has preserved the U.S. from invasion by “foreign autocrats.”

Former Secretary of State and longtime presidential adviser Henry Kissinger made one last trip to China before passing at the age of 100.

The Taiwan Ministry of Health advised young and elderly citizens to avoid traveling to China during an outbreak of respiratory illness.

Taiwan’s presidential race took a few interesting twists Saturday and Sunday, as an effort by the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) to create a fusion ticket collapsed, while front-running Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Lai Ching-te chose Taiwan’s envoy to the United States as his running mate.

Pro-China demonstrators clashed with pro-Tibetan demonstrators outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday as Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference. 

President Joe Biden and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping had their much-touted face-to-face meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, spending about four hours dining and walking the grounds at the historic Filoli estate.

President Joe Biden would veto the House Republicans’ aid proposal for Israel that would be paid for with IRS cuts, his administration said.

The Chinese Communist Party, through its state media arms and Foreign Ministry, is demanding leftist President Joe Biden abandon support for the nation of Taiwan and lift restrictions on Chinese technology imports as a precursor to an expected meeting between Biden and dictator Xi Jinping in November.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Washington, DC, this week at the invitation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss the Israel-Hamas war.

Foxconn founder and tech billionaire Terry Gou kicked off a third-party bid for the Taiwanese presidency in August, but he vanished from the campaign trail this week, three months before the election.

The Biden administration reportedly seeks to tie Israeli aid with more Ukrainian support, reviving hope among establishment lawmakers.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said it is abhorrent that Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo sees no reason to visit Taiwan.

The Chinese military published a video on Monday in which an anime-style elf appears to symbolically “reunite” communist China and Taiwan.

Former top NATO man cautions si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war — as alliance faces “existential threat”.

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng promised the United Nations General Assembly during his address on Thursday afternoon that his Communist Party would never practice “hegemony and expansion” and promote dialogue and peace – before threatening the nation of Taiwan with the “firm resolve, strong will, and the power of the Chinese people.”

The Taiwanese government praised Pope Francis’ diplomatic outreach to Beijing this week while sharply criticizing “China’s deteriorating religious freedom and human rights.”

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday approved a first military transfer to Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF)  program normally used for sovereign states.

The 80th annual Venice Film Festival in Italy is refusing to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan for the third year in a row.

The House of Commons declared that Taiwan is an “independent country” as Foreign Secretary Cleverly met with communist leaders in Beijing.

Tech billionaire Terry Gou, founder and former CEO of the Hon Hai Technology Group — more commonly known as Foxconn — on Monday became the fourth contestant in Taiwan’s January presidential election.

The trilateral summit between the United States, South Korea, and Japan at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday produced several joint statements reaffirming the commitment of the three free nations to stand for Taiwan’s freedom, denuclearize North Korea, keep the Indo-Pacific free, and support human rights.

Taiwanese Vice President William Lai received a warm welcome in New York this weekend on a stopover to Paraguay, prompting an irate Chinese Communist Party to threaten the White House with “resolute and strong measures” in response to giving Lai, a “troublemaker” and “betrayer,” entry to the country.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser and NBC News Political Contributor Ben Rhodes stated that the information China was trying to get from two Navy sailors was information in preparation for a possible

South Korean police received more than 2,000 reports of mysterious packages from abroad, a large number of them believed to be from China, in less than a week, Korean authorities confirmed on Monday.

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said on Thursday the regime in Beijing considers it a “priority” to block Taiwanese presidential frontrunner William Lai from visiting the U.S. as scheduled next month.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China and the Russian Navy began a four-day joint military exercise in the Sea of Japan on Thursday, hilariously billed by China’s state-run Global Times as a contribution to “the safeguarding of peace and stability in Asia-Pacific amid tensions and potential threats in the region.”

Divers off the Northeast coast of Taiwan recorded an encounter with a massive oarfish, a sighting believed to spell disaster.

Top Chinese diplomat and Politburo member Wang Yi demanded America “uphold mutual respect” and “properly handle the Taiwan question” during talks with John Kerry on Tuesday, the White House’s special envoy for climate alarmism.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China sent several large formations of combat aircraft toward Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Italian luxury jeweler Bulgari apologized to China on Tuesday for listing Taiwan as an independent country in a drop-down menu on its website. 

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping paid a visit to the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command in Nanjing on Thursday, encouraging his troops to keep up military pressure on Taiwan even as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was arriving in Beijing for an official visit.

The government of Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it will open a new representative office in the financial hub of Mumbai, establishing its third diplomatic office in India.

South Koreans are reportedly hoarding sea salt and other ocean products in nervous anticipation of Japan dumping over a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

A sealed indictment in South Korea, revealed to the public for the first time by Reuters on Tuesday, accuses former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog of stealing company secrets from his old employer so he could help Taiwan-based Foxconn build a chip factory in China.

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he supports Taiwanese independence from China