CROSS-STRAIT: The MAC said it barred the Chinese officials from attending an event, because they failed to provide guarantees that Taiwan would be treated with respect
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Friday night defended its decision to bar Chinese officials and tourism representatives from attending a tourism event in Taipei next month, citing the unsafe conditions for Taiwanese in China. The Taipei International Summer Travel Expo, organized by the Taiwan
Maintaining peace and stability across the Strait is not only Taiwan’s responsibility, but also an important priority for democracies worldwide, a Taiwanese official told a forum in Prague. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen Ming-chi (陳明祺) on Friday attended an annual forum by GLOBSEC, a think
Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel in response to an unprecedented attack on its nuclear facilities, escalating a conflict between sworn enemies that threatens to engulf the oil-rich Middle East. The Islamic Republic targeted Israeli cities with multiple waves of missiles and a barr
The official Web site of a Hong Kong-based group that tracked worker unrest in China was unavailable to access on Friday, a day after it abruptly announced it would cease operations due to financial issues. Founded by veteran pro-democracy protest leader Han Dongfang (韓東方) in 1994, China Labour Bull
ELITE UNIT: President William Lai yesterday praised the National Police Agency’s Special Operations Group after watching it go through assault training and hostage rescue drills
The US Navy regularly conducts global war games to develop deterrence strategies against a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, aimed at making the nation “a very difficult target to take,” US Acting Chief of Naval Operations James Kilby said on Wednesday.Testifying before the US House of Represent
A RESPONSIBILITY: The interior ministry said all men with Chinese residency who held Taiwanese citizenship must serve and called on people not to dodge their obligations
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋) yesterday said he has proposed an amendment that would relieve former citizens of the obligation to serve in the military, following reports that a man who had forfeited his citizenship for Chinese residency was sent a service notice.Taiw
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has been named a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Group on Elections (AI AGE) launched on Thursday by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington.The group includes election officials and technology experts from
New Mongolian Prime Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar has pledged to address the economic demands of protesters, after their daily rallies led to the fall of his predecessor.Lawmakers approved former parliament speaker Zandanshatar as prime minister by an overwhelming majority in a vote late Thursday n
Israel attacked Iran early yesterday with a barrage of airstrikes that took out top military officers, and hit nuclear and missile sites, calling it just the beginning and raising the potential for an all-out war between the two Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack
‘NEW MOMENTUM’: French lawmaker Marie-Noelle Battistel reaffirmed her support for Taiwan, adding that she remained committed to strengthening bilateral ties
President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday met with a visiting French parliamentary delegation in Taipei, with both sides expressing their commitment to expanding bilateral cooperation across a range of sectors.During the meeting at the Presidential Office Building, Lai thanked the delegation led by Fren
THE FRAUD FACTOR: The government is taking steps to help the private sector organize a virtual assets industry association to promote self-regulation, it said
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) yesterday previewed a bill that would punish illegal activities linked to cryptocurrencies with steep penalties ranging from fines to prison sentences.The government is drafting a bill to prevent the use of virtual assets in fraud, market manipulation, mone
President William Lai (賴清德) has invited the leaders of the two main opposition parties to a meeting on national security matters at 9am on Wednesday next week, the Presidential Office said yesterday.Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an (潘孟安) contacted Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secr
Thick black plumes of acrid smoke towered high above India’s Ahmedabad airport yesterday after a London-bound passenger jet with 242 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff.Several videos posted on social media, which The Associated Press was not able to immediately verify, showed an aircraft ra
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors yesterday formally found that Iran is not complying with its nuclear obligations, while US President Donald Trump earlier said that US personnel were being moved from the potentially “dangerous” Middle East.Following the IAEA announc
BUILDUP: US General Dan Caine said Chinese military maneuvers are not routine exercises, but instead are ‘rehearsals for a forced unification’ with Taiwan
China poses an increasingly aggressive threat to the US and deterring Beijing is the Pentagon’s top regional priority amid its rapid military buildup and invasion drills near Taiwan, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.“Our pacing threat is communist China,” Hegseth told the US Hous
Protective measures are to be implemented this month in the Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, including pseudonyms for personnel, and improving internal and external information control, Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said yesterday.China’s Guangzhou City P
Taiwan’s pledge to increase defense spending to 3 percent of GDP demonstrates its seriousness about self-defense, former US secretary of the army Christine Wormuth told the Taiwan-US Defense Industry Forum in Taipei yesterday.Wormuth, who served as secretary of the army from 2021 to early this year
The increase in Taiwan’s military capabilities and willingness to defend itself makes it “much more likely” that the US would come to its aid in the event of a Chinese attack, retired US admiral Dennis Blair said yesterday.Blair, who is in Taipei to participate in a civilian-organized tabletop exerc
‘MUTUALLY DAMAGING’: In Beijing, Christine Lagarde warned that ‘coercive trade policies’ risked harming the global economy and urged tariff de-escalation
The US and China should reach a consensus and maintain communication, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng (何立峰) said, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, after the two countries agreed to get a trade truce back on track.US and Chinese officials, including He, concluded two days of negotiations in Lond
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