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US says Beijing has ‘responsibility to use influence with Putin’ as toll mounts from Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"Any attempt to condone and support the Taiwan independence separatist forces and to play the Taiwan card to use Taiwan to contain China will never succeed," the Chinese readout said.

There are valuable lessons to be learned by all sides in a war, but only if partisans are prepared to be receptive.

That Washington has not sent troops to Ukraine to directly intervene in the Russian invasion has led some Taiwanese to doubt whether the US would defend Taiwan were China to attack. Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has even said that the US would send weapons, but not troops, were a war to occur across the Taiwan Strait. At a sensitive time like this, US President Joe Biden appointed former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen to lead a delegation to Taiwan to express...

China is continuing to prevent international investigators from tracing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has falsely blamed the United States for the deadly pandemic, the annual threat assessment produced by the office of Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines revealed this week.

China is continuing to prevent international investigators from tracing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has falsely blamed the United States for the deadly pandemic, the annual threat assessment produced by the office of Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines revealed this week.

“Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow.” This warning rings through Taiwanese social media. “We should not allow this problem to be passed down from one generation to the next,” said Xi Jinping in 2019 about the political differences between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The annual report from the Chinese government that was issued on…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the most consequential military conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War — has riveted the attention of the world. Observers have grappled with the meaning of the act of aggression and scrambled to ponder the wider implications of the war. Almost inevitably people look to draw analogies—both historical and contemporary ones. 

A delegation of former U.S. defense officials is in Taiwan to meet with senior leaders and signal support for the self-governing island, as Russia's i

Group is expected to discuss Taiwan’s defense strategy against prospective Chinese invasion