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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The federal Conservatives are accusing the Liberals of rewarding “Beijing’s intimidation” after some parliamentarians on a …
Read More »China launches live-firing drills around Taiwan in 2nd day of exercises aimed at further isolating the island
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. China launched 10 hours of live-firing exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday, deploying new amphibious assault ships …
Read More »Chinese army stages drills around Taiwan to warn ‘external forces’ after U.S., Japan tensions
China’s military on Monday dispatched air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around the island of Taiwan — a move Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces. Taiwan said it was placing its forces on alert and called the Chinese government “the biggest …
Read More »U.S. announces $11.1B weapons package for Taiwan, angering China
The United States on Wednesday approved $11.1 billion US in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from China. The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the second under U.S. President Donald Trump’s current administration, and comes as Beijing ramps …
Read More »If China invades Taiwan, these islands would be on the front line. But there’s little panic here
For a place squeezed up against a hostile adversary and that’s often referred to as the “front line of democracy,” the mood in Kinmen is notably chill. Tourists from mainland China are the top visitors to this outpost of Taiwan, usually arriving by ferry from the Fujian city of Xiamen, …
Read More »Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in China after killing at least 17 in Taiwan
Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday after killing 17 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains. The typhoon was tracking toward Maoming, one of China’s biggest oil refining cities, in Guangdong province. …
Read More »We will never forget Tiananmen crackdown, Taiwan and U.S. say on 36th anniversary
The world will never forget China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Taiwan’s president and the top U.S. diplomat said on the 36th anniversary of an event Beijing treats as taboo and allows no public remembrance. The events on and around the central Beijing square on June 4, …
Read More »China launches military drills around Taiwan, calls its president a ‘parasite’
China staged military drills off Taiwan’s north, south and east coasts on Tuesday as a “stern warning” against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a “parasite,” as Taiwan sent warships to respond to China’s navy approaching its shores. The exercises, which China has not formally named unlike war games …
Read More »China says Canada ‘deliberately stirred up trouble’ with warship sailing in Taiwan Strait
China’s military on Monday condemned the sailing of a Canadian warship in the Taiwan Strait, saying its air and naval forces had monitored and warned the ship, a mission that came just a few days after U.S. navy ships made a similar mission. The U.S. navy, and occasionally ships from allied …
Read More »U.S. releases video of ‘unsafe’ manoeuvre by Chinese warship in Taiwan Strait – National
The United States Navy has released a new video showing an up-close angle of an “unsafe” manoeuvre performed by a Chinese warship in the Taiwan Strait this weekend. The incident, first captured by Global News on June 3 aboard the HMCS Montreal, was just the latest aggressive military move from …
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