The following is the Feb. 3, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, Taiwan: Defense and Military Issues. From the ...

Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung warns China's military expansion threatens global stability and semiconductor supply chains, with 90% of advanced chips produced in Taiwan.

Taiwan, for its part, would contribute "elite troops," and Washington might assign personnel in Guam or elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region to help.

Purges of top generals means China’s leader has a freer hand to deal with the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.

Political science professor James Fearon argued that interpersonal violence, not war, imposes the heaviest social costs at a ...

On Dec. 29, 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported one of the most intense single-day episodes of Chinese ...

Would President Trump commit U.S. forces to defend Taiwan in case of invasion or blockade by China? His trade skirmishes with rivals like China and friends like Canada, on and off support for Ukraine, ...

Analysts say China’s leader is still focused on reunification ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A soldier operates a Taiwan-made attack drone during an annual military exercise ahead of the Lunar New Year, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ...

Chinese jets performed unusually unsafe maneuvers during encounters with Taiwanese F-16 fighter aircraft amid a series of ...

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te warned that countries in the region would be China's next targets should Beijing seize the democratic island, as he insisted on the need for Taiwan to dramatically ...

Taiwan detected 11 Chinese military aircraft and 8 naval vessels on Sunday, with 9 crossing the median line into its ADIZ.