The Chinese military has increased pressure on Taiwan in recent years with continuous military exercises, deploying fighter jets and warships around the island. "The more unruly the separatist independence advocates in Taiwan become,

Officially, the US acknowledges China's position while supplying the island with weapons to defend itself in the event of an attack. All this makes Taiwan one of the most important geopolitical flashpoints in the world. On both sides of the Taiwan Strait people have grown accustomed to the uncertainty and tension.

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal

In January 1988, one of Taiwan’s most senior nuclear engineers defected to the United States after passing crucial intelligence on a top-secret program that would alter the course of Taiwan’s history.

Taiwan needs to dramatically hike defense spending to around 10% of gross domestic product in order to deter a war with China, President Donald Trump's nominee to become a top Pentagon policy advisor said on Tuesday.

Taiwan and the Czech Republic, living in the shadow of Russia and China, have found common cause.

Taiwan's coast guard said it was investigating whether the incident was sabotage but said "it cannot be ruled out that it was a gray zone intrusion."

Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday that the history of World War Two shows aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would come into Beijing's hands sooner or later.

China pushed back against recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, declaring that Washington could never "sow discord" in its ties with Moscow. Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.