While the U.S. remains a “very important” strategic partner, the Beijing-claimed island “fully recognizes” the need to strengthen its defense capabilities, a Defense Ministry official said.

Top security officials say China and North Korea's support for Russia in its war against Ukraine has exposed how lines between regions have blurred, and the need for a global approach toward defense.

Whether all this comes in time remains to be seen. Military analysts fear that China could invade Taiwan as early as 2027. If war comes, Taiwan’s hope and expectation is that the United States will enter the fray. Wargames point to costly fighting and losses if that happens, including the specter of potential escalation to nuclear war.

China on Saturday criticised as a "double standard" attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion - a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on Friday night.

House lawmakers were briefed Wednesday about the potential outcome if the U.S. were to find itself at war with China over Taiwan within the next two years, as the global superpower increasingly ...

Taiwan has since the start of this year sought to cast the war as a lesson to China in why aggression will end in failure and take back the narrative from Beijing that it was not communist forces ...

who are urging authorities to move faster to deter Xi and prevent a war. “The last thing that Taiwan wants is for Xi Jinping, as the key decision-maker in China, and for the United States ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI, April 2 (Reuters) - China's military concluded two-day war games around Taiwan in which it held long-range, live-fire drills in the East China Sea, marking an escalation of ...

Taiwan president to give speech about World War's end in Europe Taiwan event to come one day ahead of Moscow military parade Taiwan, China hold competing views about the war China has ramped up ...