Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te delivering a New Year`s Day speech in Taipei on Thursday...

A screen in Beijing showing Chinese President Xi Jinping delivering his New Year`s Eve address on Wednesday...

The Chinese People`s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command take part in long-range live-fire drills targeting waters south of Taiwan on Tuesday...

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6...

A cruise missile, Barracuda 500, jointly manufactured by the US and Taiwan, is displayed during the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE) at Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept...

A man with at least one knife and smoke grenades attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan`s capital on Friday evening, killing at least three people and injuring nine others, according to the national news agency and the city government...

Taiwanese flags at the National Day celebration in Taipei on Oct...

Taiwanese Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu (center) is seen in September 2024...

Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader`s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing...

The Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong conduct a dual-carrier formation exercise in the South China Sea in October 2024...

President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct...

A US Navy USS Savannah (LCS 28) warship maneuvers in the West Philippine Sea, as part of Balikatan`s multilateral maritime exercise involving Japanese and Filipino warships, in the West Philippine Sea, Philippines, on April 25, 2025...

President Donald Trump said he has decided to lower his tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after meeting face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, a chance for the leaders of the world`s two largest economies to stabilize relations after months of turmoil over trade issues...

An H-6K bomber flies in formation with two J-10 fighter jets...

Taiwan’s President-elect Lai Ching-te (C) addresses supporters as he stands with his running mate Hsiao Bi-khim (R) in Chinese Taipei on January 13, 2024...

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian Beijing has censured the Chinese Taipei - also known as Taiwan - for hyping up what has been claimed to be China’s military threat...

President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 19, 2023...

The file photo shows a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile launcher...

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a National Day event in Taipei on October 10, 2023...

Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for China’s State Council Taiwan Affairs Office China says it recent series of drills near Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) are aimed at combating the arrogance of separatist forces...

An aerial view shows smoke billowing from a factory after a fire in Pingtung, southern Taiwan on September 23, 2023...

US President Joe Biden (L) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi meet on the sidelines of the COP27 summit in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022...

US tech billionaire Elon Musk (File photo by AFP) American tech billionaire Elon Musk has drawn Taipei’s ire for comparing self-ruled Taiwan to the US state of Hawaii in a podcast and called the island an integral part of China...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114)...

A Taiwanese flag during a ceremony in Taipei, 2021...

File photo of China’s Ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang China’s top envoy to the US has warned of a likely military conflict over persistent American efforts to urge officials of Taipei to seek independence from the mainland...

An F-16V jet fighter(FILE PHOTO) © Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images An F-16V fighter jet, the most advanced aircraft in the Taiwanese Air Force fleet, has gone missing, with witnesses claiming that they saw the aircraft crash into the sea...

Row over Taiwan Taiwan remains a major source of dispute between China and the United States...

China’s Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi China has warned the United States will pay an unbearable cost due its actions over Chinese Taipei, saying by encouraging Taiwanese secessionist forces, Washington puts the self-ruled island in a perilous situation...

Chinese and Taiwanese flags are displayed alongside military airplanes in this illustration taken on April 9, 2021...

The file photo shows Chinese flag and American flags...

US Representatives (from left) Elissa Slotkin, Nancy Mace, Mark Takano, Sara Jacobs, and Colin Allred, pose at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Tuesday, Nov...

The flags of Chinese Taipei and the US are placed for a meeting in Taipei, on March 27, 2018...

A man cycles past a Taiwan flag in Taipei, Chinese Taipei, on November 16, 2021...

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius in the South China Sea...

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says he does not expect an all-out attack on Chinese Taipei by the government in Beijing within the next decade...

The file photo shows the guided missile destroyer USS John S...

Police vehicles exit Yantian District People’s Court, where 12 Hong Kongers who were arrested last August as they tried to flee Hong Kong to Taiwan by boat are on trial, in China’s southeastern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, on December 28, 2020...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian takes a question at a daily media briefing in Beijing, China, on April 8, 2020...

This US Navy photo shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) conducting operations in the South China Sea on April 28, 2020...

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin China says it has filed a formal complaint with the United States over a visit by US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach to Taiwan, the highest-ranking State Department official to visit Taipei in four decades, in open defiance of China, which has sovereignty over the island...

Mohamed Hagi (R), Somaliland’s Taiwan representative, bumps elbows with Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu during the opening ceremony of a representative office in Taiwan, on September 9, 2020...

This handout photograph taken and released on September 3, 2020 by Taiwan’s Presidential Office shows visiting Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil receiving a map of Taiwan from Taiwanese President Tsai-wen at the Presidential Office in Taipei...

This handout picture, taken and released by Taiwan’s presidential office on May 20, 2020, shows president Tsai Ing-wen (C) arriving at the office for an inauguration ceremony, in Taipei, Taiwan...

Czech Senate chairman Milos Vystrcil (C) arrives at an investment forum in Taipei, Taiwan, August 31, 2020...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian (photo by AFP) China says it will slap sanctions on major US military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp...

This file photo shows Hsu Kun-yuan, who was the speaker for the Kaohsiung City Council in Taiwan...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian attends a news conference in Beijing, China, on April 8, 2020...

A woman, wearing a protective face mask, walks past a military recruitment poster, in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 20, 2020...

Taiwan’s top military official was among three people missing on Thursday after a helicopter made an emergency landing in a mountainous northern area near the capital, Taipei, the defense ministry said...