US President Donald Trump on Monday held back-to-back telephone calls with the leaders of China and Japan, signaling his desire to balance ties with Asia’s top economies as tensions rise over a Taiwan feud.Trump’s hour-long conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) marked their first dire
EUROPEAN VISITORS: A delegation from the Danish parliament is also visiting Taiwan, looking to discuss regional security and promote closer bilateral ties
A delegation of Panamanian lawmakers arrived in Taiwan yesterday, the first time Panamanian National Assembly members have visited Taiwan since the nation switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 2017.The nine-member group led by Manuel Cohen Salerno and Roland Ameth de Gracia, cochai
Russia rained missiles and drones on Kyiv yesterday, killing seven people, as frantic diplomatic efforts over a draft US plan to end the war intensified.Negotiators from the US, Ukraine and Russia were all due in Abu Dhabi, US and British media reported, days after US President Donald Trump tabled a
Afghanistan’s Taliban government yesterday vowed to “respond appropriately” to overnight border strikes that killed 10 people it blamed on Pakistan, as tensions soar following a suicide bombing in Peshawar a day earlier.“The Pakistani invading forces bombed the house of a local civilian resident,” T
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois Wu said the strengthening of military facilities would help to maintain security in the Taiwan Strait
Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi, visiting a military base close to Taiwan, said plans to deploy missiles to the post would move forward as tensions smolder between Tokyo and Beijing.“The deployment can help lower the chance of an armed attack on our country,” Koizumi told reporters on
MISINTERPRETATION: The legislature also condemned China’s distortion of UN Resolution 2758, which it has used as the basis for its sovereignty claims over Taiwan
The legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee yesterday passed motions condemning China’s “long-arm jurisdiction” over Taiwanese and refuting its misinterpretation of UN Resolution 2758.The motion, put forth by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, said that actions by C
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted two employees and an outside contractor of Radio Taiwan International (RTI) for allegedly launching a cyberattack against the radio station’s Web site in September.Prosecutors denounced that Wu and Yue’s actions, such as replacing the websit
Germany yesterday said that Russia has to be present at talks on ending the Ukraine war as Europe and Kyiv pressed for more work on a US proposal seen as heavily favoring Moscow.Ukrainian, US and European officials met in Switzerland on Sunday to draft an “updated” plan after a 28-point proposal tab
Hezbollah yesterday was to hold a funeral for its top military chief and other members of the militant group, a day after Israel killed them with a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November 2024 ceasefire
RECOGNITION: It was important that the resolution said ‘Taiwanese nationals,’ rather than ‘residents’ or ‘people,’ as it asserted Taiwan’s subjectivity, Shen said
The Liberal International, a global alliance of liberal and progressive democratic political parties, yesterday unanimously passed a resolution proposed by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) to condemn China’s transnational repression against Taiwanese.The motion was passed o
NO CHANGES: A Japanese spokesperson said that Tokyo remains consistent and open for dialogue, while Beijing has canceled diplomatic engagements
A Japanese official blasted China’s claims that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has altered Japan’s position on a Taiwan crisis as “entirely baseless,” calling for more dialogue to stop ties between Asia’s top economies from spiraling.China vowed to take resolute self-defense against Japan if
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday condemned China for distorting historical facts and contravening the UN Charter’s provisions in its letter to the UN threatening to invoke the right of self-defense against Japan.The ministry issued the statement after Chinese Permanent Representative
Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) yesterday urged people to avoid contact with poultry or wild birds when traveling abroad, in response to the first reported human death from complications of H5N5 avian influenza (bird flu) in the US on Friday last week.The Washington State Depar
Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed weaker terms on a fossil fuel phase-out to preserve unity.Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of exhaustive negotiations on th
DETERMINATION: Beijing’s actions toward Tokyo have drawn international attention, but would likely bolster regional coordination and defense networks, the report said
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is likely to prioritize security reforms and deterrence in the face of recent “hybrid” threats from China, the National Security Bureau (NSB) said.The bureau made the assessment in a written report to the Legislative Yuan ahead of an oral repor
INTERCEPTION: The 30km test ceiling shows that the CSIST is capable of producing missiles that could stop inbound missiles as they re-enter the atmosphere
Recent missile tests by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) show that Taiwan’s missiles are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles as they re-enter the atmosphere and pose a significant deterrent to Chinese missile threats, former Hsiung Feng III missile development project
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋), who is visiting the Netherlands for a democracy summit, said China’s use of legal means to threaten Taiwan, including recent calls by a Chinese legal expert and local government for his arrest, “will not work.”Shen said that over the pas
China has taken its widening spat with Japan to the UN, accusing Tokyo of threatening “an armed intervention” over Taiwan and vowing to defend itself in its strongest language yet in the two-week-old dispute.Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi committed “a grave violation of international law” an
The US and Chinese militaries this week held “frank and constructive” maritime security talks, the Chinese navy said yesterday, as the two superpowers gradually restore military-to-military communications after several months of trade tensions.The working-level meetings took place from Tuesday to Th
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