Tag: Taiwan

LINE Messaging App Exposed Users to Data Access by China-Based Company

Japan’s popular messaging app LINE recently admitted that its users’ personal data stored on its server in Japan could be accessed by China-based engineers that the company had outsourced to. In an official response, LINE admitted that user data had been accessed more than 32 times and that it is now setting up a committee…


China’s Ambassador to France Pressures French Senator to Cancel Visit to Taiwan

French media revealed on March 15 that China’s ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, pressured a French lawmaker to cancel a planned official visit to Taiwan. In response, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the move and called out the Chinese regime’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy.  According to French newspaper La Lettre A, Lu learned from the French…


Australian Growers Concerned About Potential Taiwan Pineapple Imports

Australia’s largest pineapple grower and a federal politician are concerned about the biosecurity risks of importing Taiwanese pineapples into the country after the Taipei Times reported that six tonnes of the fruit would be shipped to Australia in May. This comes after Taiwan’s vice president wrote on Twitter on March 1 that an Australian importer had…


Taiwan Has a Soul

Commentary “Has China lost her soul?” This is a question asked by Erping Zhang in a recent video, posted as part of the “Tea With Erping” series. I viewed the video with great interest, as this is a question that I have often pondered. Citing, among other factors, the Chinese Communist Party’s terrible, decade-long Cultural…


War Games Showed US Would ‘Lose Fast’ Against China If It Invaded Taiwan: US General

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be devastating to the U.S. military as a result of Beijing’s aggressive military developments in recent years, according to a U.S. Air Force General. The outcome was based on classified Pentagon war games carried out over the years, said Air Force Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote in a recent…


Xi Jinping Orders Military to Heighten Sense of Urgency, Strengthen Combat Readiness

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is telling the military to focus on strengthening combat readiness over the next five years as he warns of uncertainties domestically and abroad. Ensuring the Chinese armed forces are prepared for war should be the leading objective in the country’s military building, Xi, who heads the Central Military Commission, said on…


Biden Must Work to Enhance Taiwan’s Air and Sea Denial Capabilities

Commentary Under the Trump administration, the United States worked to enhance Taiwan’s ability to deny China access to the seas off its coast and its airspace. President Joe Biden should continue helping Taiwan modernize its military because it’s strategically significant. If China controlled Taiwan, Beijing would control what came in and out of the South…


Video: On the Chinese Regime’s Number One Goal; the India-China Standoff; and the Fall of Hong Kong—Cleo Paskal

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sit down with Cleo Paskal, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, to discuss what nations like the United States and Canada can learn from India’s approach to China. In Hong Kong, almost every prominent pro-democracy activist and lawmaker has been arrested, prompting growing concerns…


Taiwan Opposition Chief in No Rush for China Meeting

TAIPEI—The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) said on Tuesday he is in no rush to travel to China to meet President Xi Jinping, and that Beijing’s proposals to get Taiwan to accept Communist rule had “no market” on the island. The KMT ruled China before retreating to Taiwan at the end…


Senator Urges Biden Administration to Keep Confronting China

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) warned that the United States cannot “backslide” on China under the Biden administration. “China has been aggressive and predatory from a military standpoint, from a diplomatic standpoint, and from an economic standpoint for so many years,” said Hagerty in a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ sister company NTD at the…