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CHINA is convinced it now needs to hit America "hard and early " in a surprise Pearl Harbor-style attack to invade Taiwan, a leading expert has warned

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) chairman Mark Liu (劉德音) said in an interview with CNN on Sunday that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would render the company’s plants inoperable, and that such a war would produce “no winners.” Not only would Taiwan’s economy be destroyed in a cross-strait conflict, but the impact “would go well beyond semiconductors, and would bring about the destruction of the world’s rules-based order and totally change the geopolitical landscape,�...

Our warning time to prepare for conflict in the western Pacific has expired. The clock is ticking.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to visit Taiwan despite Chinese threats puts the U.S. at an increased risk of war with China.

Fortunately, this is the sort of diplomacy at which Biden excels.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Why humanists should teach about tragedy even though many students suffer from trauma and grief.

New Delhi, July 4: As Russian troops commenced military operations in Ukraine on 24 February, the reverberations of this event are being felt in different parts of the world and hold out the promise of major changes in international politics. ...

The leaders of NATO countries are in Madrid for the alliance’s most consequential summit in a generation. The organization appears to have overcome Turkish diplomatic blackmail to bring in two new members, Sweden and Finland. It must approve a new concept for transatlantic security amid Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine. Not least, the alliance — and the US — are set to confront an inconvenient reality: Even if the Ukraine war takes a heavy toll on Russia, NATO will need a stronger pre...

AMERICA faces defeat by China in a war over Taiwan in just a week and needs to “urgently” up its preparations, a leading expert has said.The chill