Category: Taiwan

German, Lithuania Delegations Visit Taiwan to Discuss Defense as Beijing Threat Builds

German and Lithuanian parliamentary delegates traveled to Taiwan this week to meet with Taiwanese defense officials as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued to exert military pressure on the self-ruled island. Lithuania’s nine-member delegation arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a six-day visit “to demonstrate the solidarity and cooperation of frontline democratic countries,” according to…


Mass Protests at COVID-19 Test Kit Factory in China

Thousands of protesters are clashing with police in a COVID-19 test kit plant in China—with boxes and stools flying. But what are they fighting for? China is reopening its borders, allowing people to go abroad while infections surge at home. We have an update on how countries are reacting. Funeral homes grapple with overcrowding. A…


Why Local Election Results in Taiwan Have Implications for America

Commentary Taiwan has been one of America’s key allies in deterring Communist China’s power expansion since the end of World War II. But the failure of the ruling pro-independence party in recent local elections showed that even with U.S. political and military backing, the Taiwanese people’s concerns over a potential Chinese military invasion may have…


China Again Stages Combat Drills Around Taiwan: Over 50 Warplanes, 4 Naval Vessels Involved

Taiwan strongly condemned military combat drills held by China on Monday, the second such drills around the democratically-governed island in less than a month. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft and four naval vessels around Taiwan at 6 a.m. local time on Sunday, with 28 of those aircraft entering Taiwan’s air defense…


China Needs to Know the Economic Consequences If It Invades Taiwan: Former NATO Chief

The former head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) urged countries to show China the economic consequences it will face if it invades Taiwan. Western countries need to make it clear that China would face “severe economic consequences” if it moves against the independent republic of Taiwan, said former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during…


PREMIERING NOW: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


US Warship Sails Through Sensitive Taiwan Strait

WASHINGTON—A U.S. warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, part of what the U.S. military calls routine activity but which has riled China. In recent years, U.S. warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have sailed through the strait, drawing the ire of the Chinese communist regime,…


PREMIERING 1/7 at 7:30PM ET: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…