Taiwan
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Biden speaks to Xi Jinping over phone call, discusses US-China bilateral ties, Taiwan and AI
World | Apr 02, 2024, 11:28 PM ISTThis is the first communication between the two leaders since they held a high-level meeting in California last November. Biden raised concerns over human rights abuses in China, Taiwan, South China Sea and Beijing's defence relationship with Russia in his call with Xi.
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China ramps up military threat with 32 aircraft, five naval ships near Taiwan as tensions rise
World | Mar 21, 2024, 01:29 PM ISTLast month, China increased patrols near a group of islands controlled by Taiwan after two Chinese fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard. China accused the ruling DPP of using violent methods, while Taiwan's coast guard insisted that it acted as per law.
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'Unfathomable absurdity': China accuses US of trying to 'suppress' Beijing despite improving ties
World | Mar 07, 2024, 02:38 PM ISTChina's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Washington's increasing sanctions on Chinese companies had reached "bewildering levels of unfathomable absurdity". Tensions between the two superpowers have slightly eased since Biden and Xi staged their landmark summit last year in San Francisco.
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Taiwan apologises to India after its minister says 'will recruit migrants with similar skin colour'
World | Mar 05, 2024, 11:55 PM ISTThe Taiwanese Foreign Ministry apologised for the comments made by Hsu Ming-chun wherein she said: the island nation may start recruiting migrant workers from India’s northeast region where people have similar skin colour and diets like us".
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China ramps up patrols near Taiwan's islands after deaths of Chinese fishermen
World | Feb 19, 2024, 02:23 PM ISTChina condemned Taiwan after the deaths of Chinese fishermen and accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party of forcefully inspecting Chinese fishing vessels. However, Taiwan maintains its coast guard officers were acting as per the law and the Chinese vessel was trespassing.
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After Nauru, Taiwan ally Guatemala mulls switching sides, likely to form commercial ties with China
World | Feb 06, 2024, 12:06 PM ISTThe Central American country is one of a handful of Taiwan's remaining allies, as countries increasingly side with the world's second-largest economy China, which claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its territory.
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Taiwan elects 'pro-China' opposition leader as parliament speaker, no party holds majority
World | Feb 02, 2024, 10:21 AM ISTHan Kuo-yu, the former presidential candidate of the opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), was defeated in the elections by the ruling party's Tsai Ing-wen in 2020. Han visited China and supports the 'one China' policy, but denies being pro-Beijing.
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China accuses America of 'provocation' after US warship sails through Taiwan Strait
World | Jan 26, 2024, 03:09 PM ISTThe US Navy said the USS John Finn transited through a corridor in the Taiwan Strait, which was "beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state". The development came after China agreed to resume military contacts with the US at a meeting last November between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.
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China restores diplomatic relations with Nauru after latter severs ties with Taiwan
World | Jan 24, 2024, 01:22 PM ISTNauru cut off ties with Taiwan just two days after Lai Ching-te, the candidate for Taiwan's ruling anti-China Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won the presidential elections held on January 13. Nauru previously severed relations with Taiwan in 2002 and restored it in 2005.
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Taiwan claims 6 Chinese balloons violate its airspace amid soaring tensions
World | Jan 22, 2024, 12:43 PM ISTThe Taiwan Defence Ministry noted the balloon sightings on a list of Chinese People's Liberation Army activity in the waters and airspace around Taiwan. One passed near the southern city of Pingtung, while the others flew just north of the port of Keelung, where Taiwan has an important naval base.
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'I was told to pack up and go': Envoy as Nauru switches diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China
World | Jan 15, 2024, 02:32 PM ISTThe break in diplomatic ties after Lai Ching-te won the presidential election in Taiwan on Saturday. Before the election, China repeated Lai as a 'dangerous separatist'.
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Taiwan's President-elect Ching-te could face tough years in office with no parliamentary majority
World | Jan 14, 2024, 06:44 PM ISTLai’s victory means the Democratic Progressive Party will continue to hold the presidency for a third four-year term, following eight years under President Tsai Ing-wen
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Taiwan: Ruling party's Lai Ching-te wins presidential elections, tensions with China likely to rise
World | Jan 13, 2024, 06:16 PM ISTChina repeatedly denounced Lai as a dangerous separatist and rebuffed his repeated calls for talks. Like former President Tsai Ing-wen, Lai asserted that Taiwan is already independent and needs to make no declaration of independence that could spark a military attack from China.
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Voting underway in Taiwan's closely-watched elections as China ramps up pressure
World | Jan 13, 2024, 10:19 AM ISTChina has called the elections a choice between 'war and peace' and even threatened further aggression if Taiwan moves towards independence. China considers the self-governed island as part of its mainland and has vowed to reunify both countries by force if necessary.
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Taiwan gears up for high-octane elections today that will decide future with arch-rival China
World | Jan 13, 2024, 12:27 AM ISTChina has called the elections a choice between "war and peace" and has stepped up its coercion through military incursions and trade sanctions. Taiwan's defence ministry on Friday said it detected five Chinese balloons over the Taiwan Strait within the past 24 hours.
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China sanctions five American defence companies in response to US sanctions and arms sales to Taiwan
World | Jan 07, 2024, 08:34 AM ISTChina regards Taiwan, a self-governing island off its east coast, as a renegade province that must come under Beijing’s control at some point in the future.
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Taiwan's independence belongs to its people, says presidential frontrunner amid conflict with China
World | Dec 30, 2023, 05:05 PM ISTChina says that the Taiwan election is an internal Chinese affair but that the island's people face a choice between war and peace and any attempt at Taiwan independence means war. Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to prevent anyone from trying to 'split' Taiwan from China.
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Xi vows to prevent anyone trying to 'split' Taiwan from China as tensions flare ahead of elections
World | Dec 30, 2023, 05:00 PM ISTChina says that the Taiwan election is an 'internal Chinese affair' and the island's people face a choice between war and peace. Xi said that China must deepen integration between the two sides and promote the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait.
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 shakes up Taiwan region
World | Dec 24, 2023, 07:24 AM ISTThe quake's epicentre was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), it further said.
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'Won't let war break out...': Taiwan's vice-presidential frontrunner blames China for tensions
World | Dec 23, 2023, 01:38 PM ISTTaiwan's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on January 13 and China has stepped up its military incursions to assert its sovereignty claims. The Taiwanese claimed that multiple Chinese spy balloons were spotted near the island earlier this month.