Tag: Taiwan

Taiwan Says It Will Fight to the End If Chinese Regime Attacks

The Chinese regime sent more fighter jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone on April 7 in a stepped-up show of force around the island Beijing claims as its own, and Taiwan’s foreign minister said it would fight to the end if the communist regime attacks. The democratic self-governed island has complained of repeated military activities…


CCP Adviser Outlines Plan to Control South China Sea, Challenge US Dominance in Indo-Pacific

The Chinese regime aims to seize all of the South China Sea to eventually control parts of the wider Indo-Pacific and challenge U.S. dominance in the region, according to a well-known Chinese professor. The plans illustrated by the professor, who also advises the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), stand in stark contrast with the CCP’s public…


Australia Should Take Beijing to the United Nations Over Taiwan: Diplomacy Expert

The Australian government should take the Taiwan issue to the United Nations for a vote as a circuit breaker to smother any potential military conflict in the Taiwan Strait, according to a diplomacy expert. “I think Australia could lead the charge to call Beijing’s bluff by bringing the issue before the United Nations (UN),” Joseph…


China in Focus (April 5): Relatives Mourn Victims of Taiwan Train Crash

The last body was retrieved from the wreckage of Taiwan’s deadly train crash last week. One survivor lost her entire family. Her husband and two children are among the 51 dead. A cluster of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases is emerging in a Chinese city bordering Burma (also known as Myanmar). Residents there are now under…


Taiwan Reports New Incursion by Chinese Jets Into Defense Zone

TAIPEI—Taiwan’s Defense Ministry on Monday reported a new incursion by China’s air force into the island’s air defense identification zone, made up of eight fighter jets and two other aircraft, one of which flew through the strategic Bashi Channel. Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained over the last few months of repeated missions by China’s air force…


Australia-US Preparing ‘Contingencies’ Around Possible Taiwan Conflict

Australia and the United States are working on “contingencies” if there is an outbreak of conflict around Taiwan, according to a senior U.S. diplomat. Michael Goldman, charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Canberra told The Australian National University’s (ANU) National Security Podcast last week that Australia and the U.S. are working closely together on…


Beijing Accelerating Timeline for Possible Invasion of Taiwan, Expert Warns

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Chinese communist regime is accelerating its plans to invade Taiwan, an expert warns, as Beijing ratchets up military maneuvers against the island. Twenty Chinese military aircraft—including four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and a KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft—entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone…


Truck Owner Behind Deadly Taiwan Train Crash Apologizes, Transport Minister Offers to Resign

The manager of a construction site whose truck slid onto rail tracks causing a catastrophic train crash in Taiwan apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday. The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center. The transport minister has offered to resign,…


Taiwan Prosecutors Seek Arrest in Deadly Train Crash

Prosecutors in Taiwan on Saturday sought an arrest warrant for the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a train track.


Use a Gun and Force Chinese People to Unify Taiwan: Chief Editor of State-Run Media

Chief editor of Chinese state-owned Global Times said on Wednesday that Taiwan must be unified by force and veterans should force young people to fight on the frontlines. “I must go to the [China-Taiwan] battlefield. As a veteran, I will rejoin the army when required,” Hu Xijin, chief editor of the tabloid answered a netizen on…