Hong Kong’s new National Security Law has changed the region’s social climate and triggered a new wave of emigration. Hong Kong’s official census shows that 66,000 residents moved out in 2020, mostly the young and middle-aged. One survey showed that 84 percent of high-income groups were considering emigrating overseas. According to data released by Hong…
Hong Kong’s Emigration Wave Continues, With UK and Taiwan First Choices
July 8, 2021
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US, Taiwan Revive Trade Talks Despite Objections From Beijing
June 30, 2021
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WASHINGTON—The United States and Taiwan on June 29 resumed trade talks after five years, a move that has angered the communist regime in Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the liberal democratic island. Discussions reopened on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), which was stalled in 2016. At the virtual meeting, U.S. and Taiwanese officials…
Taiwan Tells US It Hopes to Sign Free Trade Deal
TAIPEI—Taiwan’s chief trade negotiator John Deng said on Wednesday he told the United States he hopes the two can sign a free trade agreement, a deal which would be a strong show of U.S. support in the face of relentless Chinese pressure against the island. Both sides held the long-delayed talks on the Trade and…
Live Q&A: Taiwan Preparing for Possible China Conflict; Japan Says Time to ‘Wake Up’ & Protect Taiwan
Taiwan’s foreign minister declared that the country needs to prepare for a military conflict with China, amid growing threats from the Chinese government. And in related news, Japan’s deputy defense minister is saying that Japan and other democratic countries must now “wake up” and protect Taiwan. In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp,…
Hong Kong ‘Getting Darker’ as Security Chief Promoted to Second-in-Command, Says China Expert
June 28, 2021
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The communist Chinese regime is changing the semi-autonomous financial hub of Hong Kong into another mainland Chinese city as Beijing installed security officials as the city’s senior leader, according to a Chinese academic. Chen Kuide, a China scholar and editor-in-chief of the magazine China in Perspective, said the communist regime was replacing officials “incongruous with…
Beijing Weaponizes Healthcare and Mobile Apps to Target Individuals: Expert
The communist regime in China uses healthcare and apps as weapons as part of its playbook, said an expert on China and the Indo-Pacific. Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow at Chatham House and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that lessons could be learned from China’s neighbors, particularly India and…
Taiwan Reports First Domestic Case of Delta COVID-19 Variant
TAIPEI—Taiwan reported its first domestically transmitted case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus on Saturday, tightening controls in a southern part of the island where the cases have occurred. Taiwan is battling a cluster of domestic infections, almost all of them due to the previously globally dominant Alpha variant, though numbers are…
US, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan Stress Tech Supply Chain Partnership at Transnational Forum
As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected nations unprecedentedly, the United States, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan are taking collective action to cement their tech supply chain partnership. On June 22, an ad-hoc online forum for this alliance was co-organized by the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO), the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association…
Expert: Taiwan in Urgent Need of Army National Guard to Counteract Beijing’s Invasion
An American expert on military and international affairs re-emphasized in an interview with The Epoch Times that Taiwan must create its own army national guard to survive China’s military attack, following his proposition of this idea on the site of The Federalist on June 1. This theory comes as the Chinese communist regime has intensified its effort…
Taiwan Denounces Hong Kong After Officials Expelled in ‘One China’ Row
TAIPEI—Taiwan criticized Hong Kong on Monday in an escalating row over China’s sovereignty claims over Taiwan, prompting it to pull out officials from its representative office in the Chinese-run city. Taiwanese staff working at the island’s representative office in Hong Kong started leaving the former British colony on Sunday, June 20 after Hong Kong’s government…
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