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Speaker Kevin McCarthy became the most senior elected official to meet with a Taiwanese president on American soil since the United States established diplomatic relations with Beijing.
For a time, it looked as though House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would make a high-profile visit to Taiwan this spring. There was some suggestion that this might lead Beijing to react even more coercively than it did after the previous speaker, Nancy Pelosi, visited in August 2022. Perhaps for that reason, McCarthy will now have…
Tsai Ing-wen to meet the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, which China has called a ‘provocation’Pro and anti-Taiwan protesters gathered at Los Angeles airport for the arrival of Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, before a meeting scheduled for Wednesd…
As Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday fulfills a historic meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the specter of strained Sino-U.S. relations is gripping security experts […] More
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China previously warned McCarthy he is ‘playing with fire’ over the meeting and risks ‘serious confrontation’China and Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsRepublican US House speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed he will meet Taiwanese President Tsai…
Known for her quiet pragmatism, Tsai Ing-wen has ushered in a new era of American cooperation as worries about Chinese aggression rise.
With an eye on a possible conflict over Taiwan, analysts have scrutinized the war for insights ranging from the importance of supply lines to the power of nuclear threats.
Taiwan sends aircraft to warn away nine Chinese fighter jets and one drone that breached unofficial barrier between two sidesTen Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, normally an unofficial barrier between the mainland and the island,…
Scholars say it is important to hold the powerful legally accountable, but there are likely to be charges — well-founded or not — that prosecutors have political motives.
For generations, people have fished for baby eels in the island’s estuaries. But they seem to be getting harder to find.