Taiwan

•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...

International

China’s Xi pushes Taiwan issue in call with Trump

November 25, 2025 0

•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...

International

Typhoon Ragasa hits South China after killing 15 in Taiwan

September 24, 2025 0

•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 […]

Africa

South Africa sets deadline for Taiwan to relocate embassy from Pretoria

February 3, 2025 0

•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...

International

BREAKING: 7 dead, hundreds injured in most powerful Taiwan earthquake

April 3, 2024 0

•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 […...