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Taiwan’s Coast Guard said it was tracking two Chinese ships and had prepositioned two of its own to sail alongside and monitor them. | Photo Credit: Reuters China said on Saturday (July 4 2026) it had launched a new coast guard patrol east of Taiwan, replacing a task force whose presence off the island’s coast…
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Taiwan and China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory, have long spied on each other, and Taiwan in particular has reported an increased number of Chinese espionage cases. | Photo Credit: Reuters China said on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that it will take countermeasures in response to a new Taiwan government…
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New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters. File | Photo Credit: AP Beijing banned four New Zealand lawmakers from travelling to China for a year and demanded they apologise because they visited Taiwan on a Parliamentary trip, according to a message from the Chinese embassy conveyed via Parliamentary officials and shown to the press on Thursday…
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U.S. President Donald Trump and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. arms sales to Taiwan take years to process and are unrelated to the war with Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, after a senior U.S. official suggested there was a pause due to…
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China’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian. File | Photo Credit: AP China’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, Taiwan’s defence ministry said, its first transit of the sensitive waterway since formally entering service last month. Taiwan, which Beijing views as its territory, reports…
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This handout photo taken by Japan’s Ministry of Defence on September 11, 2025 and received via Jiji Press on September 12, 2025 shows China’s third and newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, sailing in the East China Sea. | Photo Credit: AFP China’s newest aircraft carrier has sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the navy said on…
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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets with his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani (not pictured) on the day of their talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Japan on December 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s “coercive behaviour” threatens regional stability, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after Taiwan said Beijing was carrying out…
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This handout from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command released on October 14, 2024, shows a map of locations of the “Joint Sword-2024B” military drills being conducted by China around Taiwan. | Photo Credit: AFP/ China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command China was holding large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its…
Three crew members from a Chinese fishing boat were missing on Saturday (August 17, 2024) after their ship collided with an unidentified vessel and sank off the coast of a Taiwanese island, Taiwan’s coast guard said. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and relations between the two have deteriorated in recent years….
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Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te visits soldiers and air force personnel in Hualien, Taiwan May 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said on June 22 it had detected 41 Chinese military aircraft around the island in a 24-hour window, a day after Beijing said “diehard” advocates of Taiwan’s independence could face the death…
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