Taiwan's military began deploying one of its newest and most precise strike weapons on Saturday as part of intensifying drills meant to showcase the island's determination to resist any Chinese invasion.

Taiwan's newly acquired HIMARS and Abrams tanks would raise the costs of a Chinese amphibious landing, a defense analyst says.

China’s oceanographic survey and research ships are collecting data in the Indo-Pacific region — possibly to aid submarine navigation, detect or map undersea cables, and lay naval mines — activities that could have military applications in a conflict with Taiwan or the US,

Taiwan launched its largest ever military drills on Wednesday, starting with simulated attacks on its command systems and infrastructure ahead of a Chinese invasion, senior defence officials said.

Defending Taiwan is one of the top priorities of the Pentagon and the US is “very unlikely” to reduce its military presence in the nation, a US defense expert said yesterday. The remark came after the Washington-based Defense Priorities think tank on Wednesday released a report calling on the US to withdraw all 500 US military training personnel stationed in Taiwan to avoid appearing “provocative” to China and contravening “past commitments not to base US forces on the island.

Most typhoons come ashore on the island’s sparsely populated east coast, but Danas scraped its crowded western edge. Nearly 300,000 households had no power on Monday.

Taipei Zoo’s female panda Yuanzai, the first giant panda of her species ever born in Taiwan, celebrated her 12th birthday Sunday morning with dozens of fans filming her eating an ice cake.

Robert Hinton is no stranger to the international stage. For the third straight summer, the rising sophomore and his older brother, Adam Hinton, are competing for Team Taiwan in the 44th William Jones Cup.

Momentum is building in Taiwan to lessen its business dependency on China, its biggest trading partner. Doing so will not be easy.

For Taiwan, the Israel-Iran conflict has become an unexpected case study in how to defend a democracy against a regional hegemon.