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Locations of Taiwan and Ukraine. Russia's invasion of Ukraine provoked several strong reactions and public statements from many Taiwanese politicians and political parties, as well as discussions among the public about how the conflict could influence China's subsequent actions against Taiwan.
“The war in Ukraine offers many important lessons for the defence of Taiwan against possible aggression by the People’s Republic of China,” according to the Institute for the Study of War ...
The Republic of China government retreated to Taiwan after its defeat in the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. With the onset of the Cold War, the legitimate representative of China in the United Nations became a point of dispute between member states.
The presence of four Asia-Pacific leaders at the NATO summit this week suggests that Ukraine is not the only major security issue on the agenda of the European-North American defense alliance.
China last staged full-fledged war games around Taiwan in late May, shortly after the new president, Lai Ching-te, took office. Beijing detests him, calling him a "separatist".
In 1942, after the United States entered the war against Japan and on the side of China, the Chinese government under the KMT renounced all treaties signed with Japan before that date and made Taiwan's return to China (as with Manchuria, ruled as the Japanese wartime puppet state of "Manchukuo") one of the wartime objectives.
China's military staged a day of war games near Taiwan on Monday, saying it was a warning to the "separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces" and drawing condemnation from the Taipei and U.S ...
To Rep. Mike Collins, China is a bigger threat to the United States than Russia. For Collins and other Republican lawmakers, Taiwan and Ukraine are effectively rivals for a limited pool of U.S ...