Chinese and Taiwanese warships were playing “cat and mouse” today, hours before the scheduled end of a four-day Chinese military training exercise held in response to the visit of the speaker of the US House of Representatives to Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to the island angered China, which responded by test-firing ballistic missiles over […]
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Taiwan: Flights gradually restored as Chinese drills end – Ships and fighters on standby
LAST UPDATE: 13:26 Taiwan’s transport ministry announced that at around noon today (local time), flights gradually resumed through its airspace as most warnings about Chinese military exercises near the island were “no longer in effect”. The ministry said in a statement, however, that Taiwan would continue to direct aircraft and ships away from the areas […]
Taiwan: China conducted ‘attack simulation exercises’ on the island, according to the Ministry. Defense
Chinese aircraft and ships conducted mock attack drills against the main island of Taiwan this morning, the Defense Ministry in Taipei said in a statement, in response to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island. The ministry said several groups of Chinese aircraft were spotted in the Taiwan Strait and some […]
Taiwan: Official leading missile production found dead
The deputy head of Taiwan’s defense ministry’s research and development unit was found dead in a hotel room on Saturday morning, according to the official Central News Agency, as reported by Reuters. Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned Chung-Shan National Institute of Science and Technology, was found dead in a hotel room in […]
In high tones the meeting of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers due to the tension in Taiwan
The chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ meeting said today that discussions on the tension in Taiwan were lively and involved heated arguments. He pointed out, however, that it is better to deal with disputes through dialogue. Prak Sokon, Cambodia’s foreign minister, advised his counterparts to have cool, dignified, polite […]
Pelosi is gone, the damage remains
Of Costa Rapti What is the real America after all? The country whose leader just last week spoke for two and a half hours with his Chinese counterpart, clearly anxious to keep channels open? Or the country whose third-ranking statesman touched Beijing’s most sensitive “red line” just 24 hours later by visiting Taiwan? The country […]
China-Taiwan: The ‘strategic ambiguity’, a constant game of military and diplomatic balance
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has angered Beijing and exposed the deliberately vague concept of “strategic ambiguity” that has governed US policy toward Taiwan for decades. In reality, relations between Washington, Beijing and Taipei resemble a constant game of military and diplomatic balancing. Historical bitterness The political and ideological rift that separates Beijing […]
US summons China’s ambassador to denounce escalating tensions against Taiwan
The White House summoned China’s ambassador to Washington Jin Gang to denounce the escalation of tensions against Taiwan and reiterate that the United States does not seek to provoke a crisis in the region, according to a report by the Washington Post. “Following China’s actions overnight, we summoned Ambassador Qin Gang to the White House […]
Australia: Government condemns China’s military high schools around Taiwan
The military exercises that China has been holding around Taiwan since yesterday, Thursday, “are disproportionate and destabilizing,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong complained today. “Australia is deeply concerned by China’s launch of ballistic missiles into the waters around the coast of Taiwan,” Wong said in a statement. “Australia shares the region’s concerns about this escalation […]
Germany: The Human Rights Committee of the Bundestag is planning a visit to Taiwan
The Human Rights Committee of the Federal Parliament plans to visit Taiwan at the end of October. The trip, which also includes visits to Japan and Hong Kong, was planned ahead of a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. According to the German News Agency (dpa), the visit will take place from October 22 […]
