Taiwan

The Chief Medical Advisor to the President made no direct investments in China, but bought into a U.S.-based mutual fund trading in China stock.

Between 2020 and 2021, Taiwan was listed as a province of China, but in 2022 diaries, references to the island disappeared altogether.

A propaganda video that included commentary in Chinese dialects widely spoken across Taiwan was viewed as a pointed warning to the island's population.

Beijing uses its economic might to blackmail countries and corporations because it is effective.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen ordered the air force's F-16Vs to be grounded for inspection.

China said the U.S. "instigated the Lithuanian authorities to undermine the 'one-China principle'" after Lithuania gave Taiwan an office under its own name.

Taipei and Washington, D.C, are reportedly in discussions over Taiwan's participation in the State Partnership Program.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that Moscow and Beijing can together resist American "hegemonism."

In its year-end press conference on Wednesday, the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing said China was confident it has the upper hand in cross-strait relations.

Another general survey this week found only 40.3 percent of respondents were willing to fight or see their family members take up arms against China.

Taipei said it welcomes pro-Taiwan initiatives in the NDAA and would conduct its own assessment about appropriate areas for cooperation with the U.S.

"We urge [the U.S.] to discard the obsolete Cold War zero-sum mentality and ideological bias," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.

Sandra Oudkirk, director of the American Institute in Taiwan, said the Chinese military air incursions are destabilizing and "run the risk of miscalculation."

Top defense officials from Japan and China agreed to establish a hotline for crisis management in 2022.

Chinese air force operations in the international airspace around the island have nearly tripled from the same period last year.

Cui Tiankai, China's long-serving former envoy in Washington, D.C., said the United States won't accept the rise of a great power belonging to another race.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pinned the blame for difficult U.S.-China relations squarely on "strategic misjudgment" in Washington.

The comments came after national security adviser Jake Sullivan said U.S. policy was geared toward sustaining deterrence.

The American system is gradually drifting into a national security system that will clearly lose a major war with Communist China.

The three-day virtual dialogue is only the third U.S.-China defense meeting to be publicized this year.

Abe's remarks come two weeks after he sparked a minor diplomatic incident by sharing identical views in a similar setting.

A trend is taking place in Taiwan within chat apps where individuals are keeping one other company until they literally fall asleep. And they're paying for it.

A lab worker tested positive for COVID-19 after being bitten twice by mice that were infected with the virus. It is unclear if the mouse bites are responsible for the infection.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson said cutting the video feed of Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, was "an honest mistake."

Honduras is now one of 14 countries to recognize Taiwan's sovereignty after Nicaragua moved to cut ties with Taipei.

Nicaragua's decision to forge relations with China leaves Taiwan's diplomatic ties down to 13 countries and the Holy See.

Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told key Biden officials on Wednesday that the U.S. needed to clarify its intent to safeguard Taiwan.

Departing from State Department guidelines last week, Secretary Blinken described Taiwan as a country for the third time publicly this year.

If our leaders are to commit blood and treasure in Taiwan, we must know why it should matter to America.

"I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war in Ukraine. I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war over Taiwan," former Naval War College researcher Lyle Goldstein told Newsweek.