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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicChina-Taiwan relations

Topic: China-Taiwan relations

US State Secretary Blinken lands in China on rare trip with low hopes for any breakthrough

Since postponing a February trip due a suspected Chinese spy balloon entering US airspace, Blinken is the highest-ranking government official to visit China in the Biden administration.

US scholar’s advice for Taiwan’s top chipmaker — ‘self-destruct mechanism could deter Chinese invasion’

New Delhi: A US academic has advocated that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest microchip manufacturer, be wired for self-destruction in the...

China warns Europe against establishing any ties with Taiwan or support ‘independence forces’

On Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu’s Europe trip, which its government has not officially confirmed, he is expected to speak at a think-tank event in Prague.

Taiwan activates air defence after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft entered its zone

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past three years regularly flown its air force into the skies near the island.

Chinese warship passed in ‘unsafe manner’ near US Navy ship in Taiwan Strait, officials say

China's military rebuked the US and Canada for 'deliberately provoking risk' after the countries' navies staged a rare joint sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Honduras to launch trade talks with China, months after it ended relations with Taiwan

Coffee will be the first export to Chinese market, Honduran Foreign Minister Reina noted, adding that both countries are evaluating future shipments of shrimp & melon to China.

‘Top priority to stabilise Sino-US relations, avoid a downward spiral,’ says Chinese minister Qin Gang

Relationship between the two nations sank to a low last year when then speaker of House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi paid a visit to Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.

US warship sails through Taiwan Strait following China war games

China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, officially ended its 3 days of exercises around Taiwan last Monday where it practised precision strikes and blockading the island.

China’s new strategy for Taiwan-US meet–show Xi as peacemaker, not rile up domestic protesters

China’s military response to Taiwan President’s meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a lot different from last year when Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei.

China sanctions Taiwan’s US envoy after President Tsai, US House Speaker meet

China prohibited Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the United States, and her family members from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.