•US President Donald Trump (right) and China’s President Xi Jinping Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged President Donald Trump to show “prudence” on the issue of Taiwan independence. He also called on the US president to quickly end the Iran war through talks, Xinhua reported as their meeting was ongoing in the White House. Xi […]...
•People walk along a street amid heavy rain due to Super Typhoon Kong-rey in Keelung Taiwan had planned an “extreme heat drill” for government officials and emergency workers to practise their response to 40C temperatures, but today’s exercise was almost washed out by heavy rain. As downpours drenched much of the island, officials in New [&he...
•China’s President Xi Jinping China’s President Xi Jinping met Taiwan’s opposition party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing today, telling the visiting delegation he had “full confidence” that Taiwanese and Chinese people would be united. Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng is the party’s first leader to visit China in a decade, but her trip has spa...
•President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping Chinese leader Xi Jinping pressed the ever-sensitive issue of Taiwan in a phone call yesterday with US President Donald Trump, as he stressed the need to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers. China’s foreign ministry said the call touched on other issues [&he...
•A car stuck in floodwaters in Hualien Fierce winds, pounding rain and high seas battered Hong Kong today as Super Typhoon Ragasa headed into southern China after causing a lake burst that killed at least 14 people in Taiwan. The Chinese finance hub saw scores of fallen trees and flooding in multiple neighbourhoods, with the […]
•President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa The South African Government has set a deadline for Taiwan to move its de facto embassy from Pretoria by the end of March, according to the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry, which attributed the decision to pressure from China. South Africa cut off formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1997, and [&hell...
•Taiwan earthquake At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured today by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of […...

