Taiwan's Constitution, enacted in 1947 by its former Chinese Nationalist rulers who fought a civil war with China's Communist forces, still officially recognizes the authorities in Taipei as the ...

Concerns about spying in Taiwan and China date back to the Chinese civil war, after which the defeated Chinese Nationalist Party, or the Kuomintang, fled to Taiwan in 1949.

That balancing act is now being stress-tested. China's military has sent more than 100 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense zone over the past several days, according to Taiwan's defense ministry.

Taiwan has 210,000 active members in its armed forces, compared with China’s more than 2 million, but it aims to make the most of those numbers by improving defenses and intensifying training ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's ...

We need to think creatively about how Taiwan can position itself in a way that's not to be too threatening to China." A short flight from Taipei is an outlying island, Kinmen, where the last round ...

Speaking at a press conference on March 13, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te broke new ground in the escalating rhetoric between the island and mainland China. While providing details on commonly ...

In August, when China held live-fire military drills in the waters around Taiwan to express its anger over a visit to Taipei by the U.S. speaker of the House at the time, Nancy Pelosi, I watched ...

For Beijing it means that Taiwan belongs to Beijing’s "One China." This different interpretations of the policy have been at the foundation of the U.S.-China relationship.

And it is far more prepared to use force against Taiwan today than it was 20 years ago. Apparent divisions within U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration about how to approach Taiwan compound ...