If China were to invade Taiwan, no one is certain how different countries would line up. A new paper by the Centre for a New American Security ( CNAS ), a think-tank in Washington, examines that question.

China's government on Friday said Taiwan was deliberately politicising the damage of undersea communication cables as part of a smear campaign, expressing anger after the island jailed a Chinese ship captain for an incident earlier this year.

On their own they may not amount to a hill of beans. But grouped together, they provide some food for thought. Various incidents have taken place in a

Ambassador Alexander Yui calls for faster delivery of military equipment and a double taxation agreement to boost Taiwan-U.S. investment amid China’s increasing military provocations.

I F TAIWAN CAN resist Chinese invasion forces for a month, then Communist Party leaders in Beijing can be deterred. That calculation has long guided war planners and politicians in Taiwan. The democratically ruled island would need to survive weeks of bombardment,

Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two former officials, one of whom worked closely with the president, for leaking national security information to China, as Taipei pushes back against Beijing’s growing efforts to undermine the self-ruled democracy.

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The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea.