Taiwan president to visit frontline islands with China for battle anniversary
Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu islands to the north, since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao…
Preparing for Chinese blockade, Taiwan reveals wartime food plans, enough rice for months
China’s latest war games around the island, carried out last week, included blockading key ports and areas, and assaulting maritime and ground targets, Beijing said.
China to carry out live firing operation in Taiwan Strait
Over the weekend, a US and a Canadian warship passed through the 180-kilometre Taiwan Strait, part of regular passages by Washington and its allies meant to reinforce its status…
Japan’s PM Ishiba meets with families of N. Korea abductee
Ishiba said he planned to open a liaison office in Tokyo and Pyongyang to help resolve the abduction issue. However, Takuya Yokota, representative of the association, strongly…
NK’s gradual unveiling of constitutionalizing ‘2 hostile Koreas’ exposes dilemma: experts
More notably, North Korean state media characterized the severance as a follow-up action aligned with the constitution.
North Korea exploding inter-Korean roads ‘symbolic move’: JCS
Tuesday’s move is a “dramatic visualization” of the previously announced closures of the roads paved by South Korea in a previous time of inter-Korean exchanges and…
Border tensions heighten as North Korea builds up drone incursion claims
Seoul won’t confirm Pyongyang’s account of drone crossing border.
Beijing accuses Taiwan President Lai Ching-te of undermining peace in Taiwan Strait
China's Taiwan Affairs Office's rebuttal came after Mr Lai’s assertive speech at Taiwan’s annual celebration on Oct 10, when he repeated a line from his inauguration speech in…
China poised for military drills after Taiwan leader’s speech – sources
President Lai Ching-te will deliver a key speech on Oct. 10 in a grand celebration in front of the presidential office in Taipei to mark the 113th birthday of the Republic of…
‘Impossible’ for People’s Republic of China to be our motherland, Taiwan president says
Mr Lai, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a “separatist”. He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying that the island is a country called the Republic…