TAIPEI, TAIWAN — On a weekday afternoon in August, dozens of Taipei residents sit on the floor in a church basement, learning to pack wounds and apply bandages as part of a first aid course that has become more urgent as China intensifies its threats a…
Japan’s foreign minister told the Nikkei news service Friday that he was working with China to arrange a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping next month.In an exclusive interview with the Japanes…
BEIJING — Chinese and Japanese officials have met in northern China amid renewed tensions over Beijing’s military threats against Taiwan and after Tokyo protested China’s firing of missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone during recent military dr…
WASHINGTON — As Chinese military exercises around Taiwan become the new normal, foreign companies are reassessing the risks and costs of doing business in Taiwan and maintaining supply chains that pass through or near the self-governing island that Chi…
WASHINGTON — Fresh outbreaks of COVID-19 in Xinjiang and Tibet this month have turned China’s two western frontier regions into lockdown zones. According to Chinese media, authorities divided the COVID-affected areas of the autonomous regions into high…
WASHINGTON — A record exodus of Hong Kongers over the past 12 months is raising concerns that the island’s status as a global financial hub may be at risk.More than 113,000 residents left the territory in the past year, marking a 1.6% population declin…
A spike in tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan has not gone unnoticed in Africa and has prompted responses that underscore the continent’s tilt toward Beijing.The U.S. announced trade talks with Taiwan on Thursday following a U.S. …
