Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te inspects troops taking part in the Rapid Response Exercise during a visit at the Songshan military airbase in Taipei on March 21. [AFP/YONHAP] China and Taiwan have ...

BEIJING, Oct. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Men forget, and history overlooks. But history is not, and must not become, a blank page to be written on at will, as there are courageous individuals like ...

STORY: On Kinmen, Taiwan’s distant outpost that hugs the Chinese coast, a crumbling, decaying site is a reminder of decades of warfare. These broken wooden seats belong to a long-abandoned cinema. It ...

In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...

Catastrophic wars can start in peripheral places: Sarajevo, for the First World War; Gleiwitz, on the German-Polish border, for the Second. The contributors to “The Boiling Moat” (Hoover Institution), ...

Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...

BEIJING(AP) — As China staged live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches, the Chinese foreign minister reiterated Beijing’s aim to achieve “ complete ...

History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. But not since World War ...

"Taiwan's Indigenous Defense Industry: Centralized Control of Abundant Suppliers" Global Taiwan Institute, (United States: Global Taiwan Institute, 2018). Tzu-Ti, Huang. “Rare Footage Shows Joint ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...