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In 2021, Aso, then deputy prime minister, called any invasion of Taiwan by China a "threat to Japan's survival" and said Japan and the U.S. would defend Taiwan together should such an incident happen.
Taiwan must rely on itself for defence and is likely to keep increasing spending and modernising its military given the threat it faces from China, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Friday ...
Taiwan is the fourth-largest recipient of American arms sales worldwide. Since 1950, only Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Japan have spent more on US weapons than the Republic of China. The Taiwan ...
By 1945, Taiwan was isolated from Japan and its government prepared to defend against an expected invasion. [154] During WWII the Japanese authorities maintained prisoner of war camps in Taiwan. Around 4,350 Allied prisoners of war (POW) were used as forced labor in camps throughout Taiwan between 1942 and 1945.
After Japan's surrender, the Taiwanese ex-Japanese soldiers were abandoned by Japan and no transportation back to Taiwan or Japan was provided. Many of them faced difficulties in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan due to anti-rightist and anti-communist campaigns in addition to accusations of taking part in the February 28 incident. In Japan ...
Taiwan is reportedly considering a $15 billion military package to strengthen its military against China, while the U.S. and Taiwan have agreed to spend over $2 billion in American weapons ...
In March 1973, the diplomatic relationship between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Spain was suspended, and in August of that same year, the Spanish Government established the Sun Yat-Sen Center in Madrid, to maintain and develop bilateral substantive relations whose name was changed to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in 1991.
The drills follow a speech last week by Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, in which he reiterated long-running pledges by the self-ruled island's leaders to resist ...