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Leaders discussed what US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called “a security-sector assistance roadmap to support the delivery of priority defense platforms over the next five to 10 years, including radar, unmanned aerial systems, military transpo…
Although Chinese fighters previously only occasionally crossed the median line, the country’s air force has done so regularly since staging war games near Taiwan in August.
Taipei says Beijing has confined flight ban north of island to 27 minutes on Sunday after initial three-day planChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsChina has appeared to backtrack after reports it was planning to declare a three-day no-fly zon…
Former PM to say in speech that any attempts by western leaders to appease Xi Jinping would be a mistakeLiz Truss will say Emmanuel Macron’s recent trip to China was a “sign of weakness”, after the French president asked Beijing for support in ending t…
“You don’t want to be starting that planning the week before an invasion, when you’re starting to see the White House saying it’s coming,” said NSA’s Rob Joyce. “You want to be doing that now.”
Political actors on both sides of the Atlantic criticized the president’s position as being too accommodating of China, just as it carries out military drills around Taiwan.
Biggest show of force since August was more targeted and showed intent to annex island, say analystsChina’s recent military drills near Taiwan were a substantive and “war-like” escalation on those conducted last August despite not including any missile…
China’s president, Xi Jinping, is often the subject of internet memes that compare him to the children’s characterTaiwanese are rushing to buy patches, popularised by air force pilots, that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh – repres…
Also, President Biden prepares to visit Northern Ireland and Ireland.
The visit comes after China completed three days of large-scale combat drills near Taiwan that included sealing off the democratically-governed island.