The Latest Breaking News from Taiwan

The US$100 million arms deal is meant to help Taiwan “sustain, maintain, and improve” its air-defense missiles in the face of pressure from China, a U.S. defense agency said.

The Biden administration has approved a $100 million missile support contract with Taiwan

Defence support comes amid heightened tension over the self-ruled democratic island, which Beijing claims as its own.

The United States has approved a possible $100 million sale of equipment and services to Taiwan to "sustain, maintain, and improve" its Patriot missile defense system, the Pentagon said on Monday, drawing an angry threat of retaliation from Beijing.

Taiwan will host a high-level delegation from Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region this week, the government said on Monday, as the island pursues diplomacy in Africa in the face of Chinese pressure to limit its international footprint.

Taiwan has been hit by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake, confirms new seismic data.

GlobalWafers Co., which supplies silicon wafers to semiconductor manufacturers, says it will invest $3.6 billion in facilities in Asia, the United States and Europe after its attempt to acquire Germany’s Siltronic AG failed

China and Argentina issued a statement supporting each other’s territorial claims over Taiwan and the Falklands respectively.

Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russian axis is a real threat, in Taiwan and elsewhere

Chinese President Xi Jinping met the leaders of several more countries on Saturday as Beijing used the start of the Winter Olympics to score diplomatic points amid simmering tensions with the United States. Following a groundbreaking agreement with Russia on Friday over Taiwan and against NATO expansion, Xi held meetings…

Taipei says Russia’s declaration that the island is part of China increases people’s ‘disgust’ of Beijing’s ‘arrogance’.