FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles equipped with US-made TOW 2A missile can be seen during a live fire drill in Pingtung TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan should pay the United States for its defence as it does ...

China announced a seven percent boost to its defence budget for 2026 on Thursday as it steadily increases spending to counter ...

Last week, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te went on a whirlwind tour of the Pacific, visiting three countries that belong to a highly exclusive club: Taiwan’s diplomatic allies. It is up to the United ...

Taiwan is such a place. Despite being home to only about 23 million people, Taiwan is a vital gateway to the western Pacific. It sits along maritime routes essential to global trade and is a leader in ...

The Lai administration immediately sought to align itself with the United States, while debate in Taiwan rages over what the strikes mean for cross-strait dynamics.

On February 12, 2026, the United States and Taiwan signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (“ART”) formalizing the Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) signed on January 15, 2026. As part of the deal, ...

In 2021, U.S. Navy Admiral Philip Davidson, then the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services that Beijing had set a serious goal of ...

The island’s main political parties clash over whether to prioritise US arms or invest in home-grown weapons and ‘T-Dome’ air ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan should pay the United States for its defence as it does not give the country anything, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview published on ...

TAIPEI, July 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan should pay the United States for its defence as it does not give the country anything, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview ...