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Former top NATO man cautions si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war — as alliance faces “existential threat”.

The Taiwanese government praised Pope Francis’ diplomatic outreach to Beijing this week while sharply criticizing “China’s deteriorating religious freedom and human rights.”

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday approved a first military transfer to Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF)  program normally used for sovereign states.

The 80th annual Venice Film Festival in Italy is refusing to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan for the third year in a row.

Tech billionaire Terry Gou, founder and former CEO of the Hon Hai Technology Group — more commonly known as Foxconn — on Monday became the fourth contestant in Taiwan’s January presidential election.

The trilateral summit between the United States, South Korea, and Japan at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday produced several joint statements reaffirming the commitment of the three free nations to stand for Taiwan’s freedom, denuclearize North Korea, keep the Indo-Pacific free, and support human rights.

Taiwanese Vice President William Lai received a warm welcome in New York this weekend on a stopover to Paraguay, prompting an irate Chinese Communist Party to threaten the White House with “resolute and strong measures” in response to giving Lai, a “troublemaker” and “betrayer,” entry to the country.

South Korean police received more than 2,000 reports of mysterious packages from abroad, a large number of them believed to be from China, in less than a week, Korean authorities confirmed on Monday.

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said on Thursday the regime in Beijing considers it a “priority” to block Taiwanese presidential frontrunner William Lai from visiting the U.S. as scheduled next month.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China and the Russian Navy began a four-day joint military exercise in the Sea of Japan on Thursday, hilariously billed by China’s state-run Global Times as a contribution to “the safeguarding of peace and stability in Asia-Pacific amid tensions and potential threats in the region.”

Divers off the Northeast coast of Taiwan recorded an encounter with a massive oarfish, a sighting believed to spell disaster.

Top Chinese diplomat and Politburo member Wang Yi demanded America “uphold mutual respect” and “properly handle the Taiwan question” during talks with John Kerry on Tuesday, the White House’s special envoy for climate alarmism.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China sent several large formations of combat aircraft toward Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Italian luxury jeweler Bulgari apologized to China on Tuesday for listing Taiwan as an independent country in a drop-down menu on its website. 

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping paid a visit to the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command in Nanjing on Thursday, encouraging his troops to keep up military pressure on Taiwan even as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was arriving in Beijing for an official visit.

The government of Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it will open a new representative office in the financial hub of Mumbai, establishing its third diplomatic office in India.

South Koreans are reportedly hoarding sea salt and other ocean products in nervous anticipation of Japan dumping over a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

A sealed indictment in South Korea, revealed to the public for the first time by Reuters on Tuesday, accuses former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog of stealing company secrets from his old employer so he could help Taiwan-based Foxconn build a chip factory in China.

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he supports Taiwanese independence from China

Antony Blinken failed to get China to agree to restart U.S.-China military-to-military communications during his trip to Beijing.

The U.S. State Department and Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Beijing next week.

President Joe Biden is greenlighting South Korean and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers to continue expanding their operations in China thanks to exemptions rewarded to various companies by the administration. 

Honduras Foreign Minister Enrique Reina told China’s state-run Global Times his country is joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed a Chinese spy plane was able to monitor a joint naval exercise between the United States, France, Canada, and Japan and gather valuable intelligence on the ships involved, including two American aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan.

Ten Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the Taiwan strait — which serves as an official barrier between Chinese and Taiwanese forces — for the second time in less than a week.

The Chinese Communist government on Sunday claimed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) appropriately handled a “provocative transit” by American and Canadian warships through the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday.

Chinese National Defense Minister Li Shangfu, making his debut on the international stage, told attendees at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Sunday that the communist nation’s military would attack “without any hesitation” against any allies of Taiwan seeking to support the nation’s independence from Beijing.

The Chinese Communist government is ramping up online censorship ahead of the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre of student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square – an event that is illegal to commemorate or discuss in China.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called out Elon Musk and other American CEOs for catering to China for economic gain. 

Countries belonging to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) voted this week to increase their own membership fees by 20 percent, resulting in a $6.83 billion budget for the next year, “the most ambitious to date.”

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) opened its annual World Health Assembly on Sunday, once again excluding the nation of Taiwan – which attempted to warn the W.H.O. of an infectious disease spreading in Wuhan, China, during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic – as a result of Chinese pressure.

A senior Republican politician has lashed out at Emmanuel Macron, calling the French President’s foreign policy on China a “dumpster fire”.

Chinese state media are touting the China-Central Asia Summit, held on Thursday and Friday in the historic northwestern Chinese city of Xian, as a counter to the Group of Seven (G7) gather of democracies in Japan this weekend.

UK catching up with efforts by Western allies seeking to reduce reliance on Asian production of the computer chips.

The UK and Japan are set to sign a new China-bashing defensive pact aimed at securing the Indo-Pacific, reports on Thursday suggest.

Like it or not, the Western world is already in a cold war with China, former PM Liz Truss has reportedly claimed.