TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan on Sunday (Aug 7) said flights through its airspace had gradually resumed from about noon as most notifications for Chinese military drills near the island were “no longer in effect”. The Transport Ministry said in a statement, however, that Taiwan would continue to direct flights and ships away from a Chinese military […]
TAIPEI/BEIJING (BLOOMBERG, AFP, REUTERS) – China’s aircraft and warships rehearsed an attack on Taiwan on Saturday (Aug 6), island officials said, as Chinese forces appeared to be getting close to Taiwan’s shores. China doubled down on the exercises, held in retaliation for a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that also saw […]
PHNOM PENH (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken told an Asian meeting of top diplomats on Friday (Aug 5) that China’s reaction to US house speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was “flagrantly provocative”, a western official said. Blinken, speaking at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, said China had sought […]
TOKYO – China on Thursday (Aug 4) fired at least 11 ballistic missiles around Taiwan in the course of unprecedented live-firing exercises following the visit of United States Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said its missiles “all precisely hit their targets”, even as Japan said five of them had landed […]
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sails under Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge after being inspected by Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN officials at the entrance of the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey on Aug 3, 2022. (EMRAH GUREL / AP) ISTANBUL – The first grain-laden ship leaving Ukraine passed through Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Wednesday […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China insisted on Wednesday (Aug 3) that its military exercises around the Taiwan Strait were “necessary and just” in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island. “The Chinese military’s conducting of military exercises in the sea near China’s Taiwan are a necessary and just measure to […]
TAIPEI (AFP) – Ever since Communist China and Taiwan broke away from each other at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 the waterway separating them has been a tense geopolitical flashpoint. Just 130 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, the Taiwan Strait is a major international shipping channel and all that lies […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China on Saturday (July 30) will hold live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait, the government announced via state media, raising the stakes ahead of a possible trip to the self-governing island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The manoeuvres will be limited in scope and will take place off the island […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Many in Taiwan are shrugging off China’s warnings about a possible trip to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying they are accustomed to Beijing’s sabre-rattling and see no cause for alarm. Such a trip would be the first by a House speaker to the island since 1997. China, which […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s military said on Wednesday (July 20) it followed and monitored US destroyer Benfold’s transit of the Taiwan Strait. “The frequent provocations and showing-off by the United States fully demonstrate that the United States is a destroyer of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and a maker of security risks in […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s military recently held multi-unit joint combat readiness exercises, patrols and combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan, the Eastern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement on Friday (July 8). The exercises were organised in response to “collusion and provocations” by the United States […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – A US Navy aircraft’s flight through the Taiwan Strait last week demonstrated a US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, the US military said on Tuesday (June 28), after China complained it endangered peace and stability. China said it had sent aircraft to monitor and warn the P-8A anti-submarine aircraft as […]
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – China’s military said on Saturday (June 25) that the recent fly through of a US maritime plane through the Taiwan Strait deliberately disrupted the regional situation and endangered peace and stability. Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army, said in a statement that the military […]