What lessons can we learn from the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 65 years later? Photo: A defunct artillery base on the island of Kinmen, now open to tourists, photographed in July 2018.

A new report from the Swedish National China Centre finds that forecasts consistently rate the risk of armed conflict in the Taiwan strait as low. While parallels are often overdone, the infamous ...

Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is an island separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. Mainland China ... In March 2023, Honduras severed ties with Taipei and established ...

The risk of a serious crisis between China and Taiwan is growing. Cross-strait relations have chilled in recent years as a result of the unwillingness of Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to ...

Ian Easton, who has written a book on the Taiwan Strait flashpoint, thinks that a crisis over Taiwan will occur in the next few years. The novel coronavirus pandemic has further intensified the ...

which it said is unilaterally undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and disrupting international shipping and trade. The Foreign Ministry, in a statement posted on its website ...

Is a crisis coming? Here's everything you need to know: China has always considered Taiwan its territory, and reunification is an almost sacred cause. Tensions across the Taiwan Strait have led to ...

However, there is an even larger supply chain crisis ... of the Strait of Taiwan by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy. The growing supply chain tensions began in October 2023, when ...

TOKYO/BEIJING--Japan's Self Defense Force sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday for the ... "We have a strong sense of crisis that airspace violations have occurred one after another ...

Comparing the current crisis to the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis from 1995-96, Japan’s attitude toward China, the U.S., and other like-minded countries has changed significantly.