US Voices Support for Taiwan After Beijing Threatens War
TAIPEI, Taiwan China escalated its war-mongering towards Taiwan on Jan. 28, warning the self-ruled island that “independence means war.”
The threat was made during a monthly briefing by Wu Qian, the spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense. He made the remarks while responding to a question about recent activities by China’s air force near Taiwan.
China made its largest-scale military incursion into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the weekend 13 military aircraft flew over Taiwan’s southwest waters on Jan. 23, and another 15 military aircraft made a similar incursion the next day.
MAC mulls same-sex marriage for Chinese
By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) is exploring legal options to allow Taiwanese to marry their Chinese same-sex partners.
The comments on Thursday came after the Judicial Yuan last week said that it aims to amend regulations on same-sex marriages, opening them for Taiwanese and their spouses from countries that do not recognize same-sex marriage.
This would also apply to spouses from Hong Kong and Macau, but not China, the Executive Yuan said.
MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said that the Council of Grand Justices’ Interpretation No. 748, the basis for same-sex marriage in Taiwan, does not allow for the exclusion of Chinese spouses.
Updated Jan 29, 2021 | 12:06 IST
Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering its southwestern air defence identification zone last weekend. File image | Photo Credit: AP
Beijing: China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that independence means war and that its armed forces were acting in response to provocation and foreign interference.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering its southwestern air defence identification zone last weekend, prompting Washington to urge Beijing to stop pressuring Taiwan.
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