Exclusive: diplomats had to scramble to contain fallout with Beijing after Douglas Alexander’s trip to TaipeiChina threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister’s visit to...
Read MoreUK, EU and Australia say guilty verdict against 78-year-old is further blow to democracy and press freedom in territoryGovernments, institutions and rights groups across the world have condemned the conviction of the former...
Read MoreThe US president’s strange mix of weakness and anti-Beijing hostility may be pushing Xi Jinping towards a fateful decisionThe belief that bad things come in threes is an old superstition with scant basis in fact. Still, in these...
Read MoreTrip by five Labour MPs designed to build UK-Taiwan ties as Beijing steps up military capabilityA group of five Labour MPs is travelling to Taiwan for meetings with government officials for the first time since Labour came to...
Read MoreExclusive: letter shows dates for visit that was planned by Tsai Ing-wen before Foreign Office intervenedTaiwan’s former president Tsai Ing-wen had been due to visit the UK between 16 and 18 October before the Foreign Office...
Read MoreForeign secretary discussed China’s treatment of Uyghurs and support of Russia as well as ‘areas of cooperation’David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of...
Read MoreExclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen’s trip came before ‘goodwill visit’ to China by David Lammy next weekThe UK Foreign Office (FCDO) asked for a visit by the former Taiwanese president to be postponed so as not to anger...
Read MoreTaiwanese company Gold Apollo says a company in Europe made the pagers used in extraordinary attack in Lebanon that Hezbollah blames on IsraelSee all our Middle East crisis coverageIsrael planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers...
Read MoreDong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in SingaporePeaceful “reunification” with Taiwan remains China’s goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese...
Read MoreThe Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to signThe US Senate voted resoundingly on Tuesday to approve $95bn in wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and...
Read MoreDead include three hikers and a van driver amid rock slides in the Taroko national parkFull report: nine dead and hundreds injured amid landslides and collapsed buildingsPeople are trapped in collapsed buildings in Taiwan’s city...
Read MoreRescues carried out in worst-hit city of Hualien after strong 7.7 magnitude quake; Japan lifts tsunami advisoryFull report: four dead and dozens injured amid landslides and collapsed buildingsPeople are trapped in collapsed...
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