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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicChina-Taiwan relations

Topic: China-Taiwan relations

Kamala Harris condemns China for ‘disturbing’ actions, pledges to deepen US ties with Taiwan

Harris said that China 'flexes' power to intimidate its neighbours, as is being seen in Taiwan. She also stated that the US would continue to operate 'undaunted' in the province.

Grappling with increased Chinese aggression, Taiwan hikes defence expenses for 2023

With a budget of USD 17.3 billion, Taiwan seeks to put in place new advanced combat jets and programs for elevating sea and air combat capability.

Indians are jumping through hoops to get into China—charter planes amid sky-high prices

Indian businessmen will reach the world's 'small commodities capital'. China is allowing foreigners to return for the first time since the pandemic started.

Chinese nationalists ask Beijing how come Pelosi plane to Taiwan wasn’t shot down

Experts say China had to react to Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit with military exercise because domestic sentiment demanded leaders match words with action.

India has moved away from ‘One China’ policy. Now it must develop independent ties with Taiwan

A military action or forced annexation attempt by Beijing against Taipei after Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit will lead to a Ukraine-like conflict, which will isolate China.

‘This is Taiwan, nobody is panicking’: China military drills talk of island after Pelosi visit

With PRC holding extensive military exercises, face-off may be bigger than 1995-96 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. But people have lived with China threat for a long time, say observers.

27 Chinese military jets enter Taiwan airspace after Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei

As many as six J-11 fighter jets, five J-16 multirole fighters and 16 SU-30 multirole fighters entered the air defence zone today.

Taiwan premier among 3 leaders banned by China as tensions over sovereignty intensify

Premier Su Tseng-chang, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, Legislative Yuan President You Si-kun and their relatives have been banned from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

John Oliver’s Taiwan sketch receives backlash from Chinese media over ‘dodged facts’

During the segment, Oliver sought to untangle China-Taiwan relationship and concluded that the island’s fate should be left up solely to the Taiwanese people.

China recalls its envoy to Lithuania over opening de facto Taiwan embassy

The Chinese Foreign Ministry statement called on Lithuania to immediately rectify its wrong decision & measures to undo the damage, and not to move further down the wrong path.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?