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TAIWAN

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 16, 2022
Singapore’s next prime minister warns U.S. and China may ‘sleepwalk into conflict’
Lawrence Wong said the relationship between the world's biggest economies was on a 'very worrying” trajectory.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022
Congress forces Biden toward risky face-off with China over Taiwan
More hawkish moves by Congress could leave the U.S. president with a choice of whether he would rather look weak in Washington or in Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2022
China has painted itself into a semiconductor corner
Lost billions, graft probes, and broken dreams are the result of over-ambitious goals to build a leading chip sector.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022
China's Taiwan drills accompanied by wave of misinformation
As millions watched a Weibo livestream of a flight-tracking site showing Pelosi's flight landing in Taiwan, unsubstantiated claims emerged that her plane was forced to turn back to the U.S.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 15, 2022
China stages more drills near Taiwan as U.S. lawmakers visit
The de facto U.S. Embassy in Taipei said the delegation is being led by Senator Ed Markey, who is being accompanied by four House lawmakers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 13, 2022
Taiwan's front-line islanders unfazed by beat of China war drum
Kinmen citizens were mostly unfazed by the latest beating of Beijing's war drum despite the islets of 140,000 people sitting just 3.2 kilometers across from the Chinese city of Xiamen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 13, 2022
Xi eyes in-person summit with Biden in November: report
The summit, which would come amid tense Sino-U.S. ties, could come on the fringes of meetings to be held in Southeast Asia in November.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 13, 2022
China's sharper focus on military option for Taiwan raises risks with U.S.
Security analysts expect Chinese forces, particularly the navy, to maintain extensive patrols around Taiwan, pushing over the median line.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 13, 2022
China's military drills near Taiwan offer spying opportunity for U.S. and allies
The drills provide an opportunity to scrutinize the missiles China would use to drive off foreign militaries intervening in any future invasion.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2022
Xi let missiles fall in Japan's EEZ during Taiwan drills, sources say
The leader allegedly ditched a plan to avoid conducting exercises last week in waters overlapping Japan's EEZ to make the training in six areas encircling Taiwan more combat-oriented.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2022
Taiwan holds military drill after China repeats threats
Beijing has raged at a trip to Taiwan last week by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, staging days of air and sea drills around the island.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2022
China warns it will not tolerate Taiwan 'separatists'
The warning from Beijing came after days of unprecedented Chinese military drills around the island sparked by a trip there by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2022
U.S. rethinks approach to China tariffs in wake of Taiwan response
The president's team has been wrestling for months with various ways to ease the costs of duties imposed on Chinese imports during predecessor Donald Trump's tenure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022
Keeping cool as U.S.-China tensions simmer
Both Beijing and Washington need to make sure the new low in relations does not become the new normal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022
China says Taiwan’s leaders are increasing risk of war
Taipei must change course to reduce tensions, the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing said, in its first white paper published since Chinese President Xi Jinping took power.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 9, 2022
Upping the ante: Key takeaways from China’s major drills around Taiwan
China's largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan have provided analysts with potential insight into how Chinese forces might operate around the self-ruled island in case of a conflict.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022
China thinks it’s winning the race against the West — but is it?
The readiness to take a hard line on Taiwan is strengthened by the conviction among Chinese that the global balance of power is shifting and the tide of history favors their country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2022
Taiwan accuses China of preparing for invasion as Taipei conducts own drills
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has accused Beijing of using U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as a pretext for military action.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022
In first, MSDF joins joint military exercise simulating 'threat to Japan's existence'
Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi revealed that the Izumo — one of the MSDF's two de facto aircraft carriers — and the Takanami destroyer took part in the RIMPAC drill.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 9, 2022
Japan and U.N. voice 'serious concern' about rising tensions over Taiwan
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.N. chief Antonio Guterres have expressed their shared 'serious concern' following China's large-scale military drills near the island.

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