Taiwan

US would defend Taipei if attacked by Beijing

Tokyo to double arms spending to counter threat from Beijing

Russian foreign minister warns that escalation of Ukraine conflict is a ‘real’ danger

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Xi Jinping has described the ‘reunification’ of China as Beijing’s ‘historical task’

Baltic country’s foreign minister says Beijing is deploying ‘weapon of economic destruction’

The policy has cast the government in Taipei out into the diplomatic wilderness

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Authorities considering upping alert level as cluster of untraced domestic infections reported

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Taipei’s swift response to pandemic has saved lives - and boosted support to challenge China

What can we learn from how the two nations responded?

Many are viewing Saturday’s upcoming election as a referendum on Taiwanese independence from China

US angers Beijing by holding rare diplomatic meeting with disputed territory

Insects were feeding on tear ducts of unsuspecting host

Tributes pour in for Taiwanese social media star who posed on peaks in skimpy swimwear

Beijing warns it will ‘do whatever it takes’ to defend Taiwan from foreign intervention

The referendum result isn’t legally binding, but could still prevent the legalisation of same-sex unions

Beijing pledges $150m in infrastructure funding for Central American nation in fresh blow to Taiwan

All eight carriages of the train came off the rails on line popular with tourists

Kingdom formerly known as Swaziland has resisted China’s overtures in Africa

Taipei vows to fight China’s ‘increasingly out of control’ behaviour after losing third ally this year

South Korea launches memorial day honouring the women forced into brothels by Japanese occupiers

Exercise a ‘show of geopolitical support for Russia’ as regional tensions rise

Chinese president says separatists will suffer the ‘punishment of history’

Chou Kun-hsuan of Chinese Culture University claims phenomenon beats six-hour rainbow seen in Sheffield in 1994

President of self-governing island vows to defend freedom in wake of reports of China’s invasion plans

US television interview reveals the sheer size of Apple's camera division – and what it means for future iPhones

Investigation reveals pilot mistakenly switched off the TransAsia plane's engine seconds before it crashed

Ministers from Beijing and Taipei are holding the highest-level talks in 65 years