TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) has detected seven Chinese military aircraft and four naval vessels around Taiwan between 6 am (local time) on Tuesday and 6 am (local time) on Wednesday, Taiwan News reported. Following China’s action, Taiwan sent aircraft and naval ships and deployed air defense missileContinue Reading
BEIJING: The United States Navy sailed its first warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday following presidential and parliamentary elections on the island, drawing the ire of Beijing. The US Navy said the destroyer USS John Finn transited through a corridor in the Taiwan Strait that was “beyond theContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan‘s ruling party presidential candidate Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday he would maintain the status quo and pursue peace through strength if elected, remaining open to engagement with Beijing under the preconditions of equality and dignity. Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory and has cast the island‘s presidentialContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Saturday morning that over the past 24 hours it had detected 20 Chinese air force planes entering the island’s air defence zone. That included fighter jets and drones that crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, previously an unofficial barrier between the twoContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan will kick off a two-day missile live-firing test on Monday ahead of its largest annual military exercises as the island ramps up preparations against an increasingly assertive China.The 23 million Taiwanese people live under constant threat of invasion by Beijing, which views the self-ruled democracy as part ofContinue Reading
TAIPEI: China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defence ministry said Friday, in the largest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in the month.Six navy vessels were also spotted in the area fromContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: China would probably gain air superiority very quickly in any attack on Taiwan, something Russia crucially failed to do in its invasion of Ukraine last year, leaked US intelligence documents show, according to media reports Saturday.The classified documents, allegedly leaked by a US national guardsman in the worst USContinue Reading
BEIJING: China announced Saturday it was launching three days of military drills in the Taiwan Strait. The People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theatre Command said “United Sharp Sword” would run April 8 to 10 for “combat preparedness”. In a PLA statement, Eastern Theatre spokesman Senior Colonel Shi Yi, said “United SharpContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations of 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing’s strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy.The large-scale Chinese deployment comes as Beijing increases preparations for aContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House later this month for economic and security consultations, the US administration announced Tuesday.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the January 13 meeting will include discussions of North Korea‘s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, amidContinue Reading