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Azar meets with Taiwan President Tsai on breakthrough visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei in 1979. Tsai said to reporters at the Presidential Office Building that said she looked for…

Former president who brought direct elections to Taiwan dies

TAIPEI, Taiwan Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who brought direct elections and other democratic changes to the self-governed island despite missile launches and other fierce saber-rattling by China, has died. He was 97. Taipei…

Northeast Asia

Taiwan says China sending planes near island almost daily

TAIPEI, Taiwan China is sending military planes near Taiwan with increasing frequency in what appears to be a stepping up of its threat to use force to take control of the island, Taiwan’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Such flights are…

Northeast Asia

Would-be travelers in Taiwan live out dreams of flying again

TAIPEI, Taiwan Like almost every region, Taiwan has been hit hard by restrictions on international travel imposed because of the coronavirus. Some residents have found comfort in boarding a flight that didn’t take off, just to revisit some…

Northeast Asia

Taiwan says Dalai Lama welcome to visit, a trip that would infuriate China

Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan would welcome a visit by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, its foreign ministry said on Monday, a trip that would infuriate Beijing which views him as a dangerous separatist. The Dalai Lama has not…

Northeast Asia

Bucking China pressure, Taiwan, Somaliland establish ties

TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan has scored a rare diplomatic victory in establishing relations with the independent region of Somaliland. Intense pressure from China has reduced self-governing, democratic Taiwan to having just 15 diplomatic allies…

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