BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...

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In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...

Tainan is considered the culinary capital of Taiwan. At one of the oldest wet markets in that Southern city, Shuixian Gong Market, the island's vibrant cuisine is on the display. There are displays of ...

Catastrophic wars can start in peripheral places: Sarajevo, for the First World War; Gleiwitz, on the German-Polish border, for the Second. The contributors to “The Boiling Moat” (Hoover Institution), ...

History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. But not since World War ...

The Chinese Communist Party is pressuring the Taiwanese people to vote "on the right side of history" by selecting presidential candidates open to reconnecting with the mainland. Song Tao, head of ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan—The island democracy of Taiwan is demonstrating its fortitude against the threat of Chinese invasion with an annual defense exercise that is twice as long and far bigger than in the ...

Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...

China and Taiwan are in a heated argument over history and national identity. This new war of words has raised global attention. The issue is serious and emotional. China has said very clearly that ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime that currently rules China maintains that Taiwan is inseparably and permanently a part of China. The White Paper published by the Chinese government in August ...