The head of Taiwan’s National Security Council arrived in the United States for talks with President Donald Trump’s administration, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, days after China concluded war games around Taiwan. Joseph Wu was leading a delegation for a meeting known as the “special channel,” the Financial Times reported earlier….
China’s military on Tuesday said it had begun joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan to “serve as a stern warning and powerful deterrent against Taiwanese independence”, calling Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-Te a “parasite”. The exercises around the democratically governed island, which China views as its own territory and has never renounced the…
China-Taiwan Tensions: The recent damage to an undersea cable off Taiwan’s coast has raised alarm over China’s growing use of ‘gray zone’ tactics—non-military but strategic methods aimed at undermining Taiwan’s security. Suspicion points toward China after the Shunxin39, a Chinese-linked ship, was found near the damaged cable. This incident is part of a broader pattern…