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

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.

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.

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With Beijing likely to rely on asymmetric capabilities rather than landing soldiers to invade, America can help siege-proof the island democracy.

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.

China claims Taiwan as its own despite Taipei's objections. The United States does not recognize Taiwan's statehood but has political and economic stakes in a peaceful resolution to the decades-long dispute, and is obliged by U.S. law to help Taipei arm itself against a possible attack.

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.

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.

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