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House Democrats urge Rubio to approve transits for Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te, after reports a previous transit was blocked. They call the decision a "stark departure from precedent" and warned against using Taiwan as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China

US cancelled meeting with Taiwan’s defense minister in Washingon area

Trump administration told Taiwan's President he could not transit New York en route to Central America. Lai then cancelled the whole trip - FT

UK Defence Secretary John Healey says Britain is prepared to fight alongside allies like Australia in the Pacific "if conflict breaks out over Taiwan." Source: The Telegraph

China lodges protest with Japan over Taiwan region official's visit

Taiwan's main opposition will protest on Friday, the eve of unprecedented recall elections targeting its lawmakers that could tip the balance of power to President Lai Ching-te's ruling party

Generalul Alexus G. Grynkewich din cadrul Comandamentului European al SUA a declarat că NATO trebuie să se pregătească pentru potențiale conflicte simultane cu Rusia și China, posibil până în 2027. Grynkewich a menționat, de asemenea, eforturile NATO de a furniza mai multe sisteme Patriot Ucrainei. - Stars and Stripes

Taipei holds air raid drill to prepare for Chinese attack

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make first trip to Asia, for ASEAN meeting in Malaysia: U.S. State Department

Han Kuang, the annual major military exercise of the Republic of China Armed Forces, is set to begin next week. With approximately 22,000 reservists to be mobilized, the most in the drill's history, check out TSM’s visualization highlighting Taiwan’s Reserve Command districts and bases:

China's military vows to boost combat readiness after Taiwan president says that Taiwan is a country

Beijing to Taipei: How can we “invade” Taiwan when it’s already part of China “Though the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have not yet been fully reunified, the historical and legal fact that compatriots on both sides belong to one China…never changed.”

British warship HMS Spey bravely navigated through the Taiwanese strait in order to reinforce freedom of navigation, despite protests by the Chinese Government

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says the threat of China "conquering Taiwan" is real and "could be imminent"

Taiwan will hold a national referendum on restarting a nuclear reactor that it shut down just last week, potentially opening up a pathway to reverse the government's anti-nuclear policy

'Ignorant' to call Taiwan a country, China says responding to Taipei's foreign minister

29 PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels and 2 official ships operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 25 out of 29 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern, southwestern and eastern ADIZ.

President of Taiwan: Taiwan does not seek retaliatory tariffs against the US. Instead, we’ll start talking from bilateral 'zero tariffs.' To ensure Taiwan's competitiveness, we'll increase US imports and adopt other measures. Working together, we'll usher in a golden age of shared prosperity

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 10 km WNW of Yujing, Taiwan

The CCG has published a map of their current movements around Taiwan carried out "according to the One-China Principle"

Spokesperson for the East China Sea Branch of the Chinese Coast Guard has announced the CCG is conducting "law enforcement patrols" surrounding Taiwan including "pre-inspection, arrest, interception and seizure, and other subject exercises."

Taiwan detects 19 Chinese warships, Shandong aircraft carrier group around island - AFP

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says his country and Japan share a “warrior ethos” in tackling Chinese aggression across the Taiwan Strait

Secretarul de stat american Marco Rubio a declarat ieri că președintele american Donald Trump se opune oricărei modificări a „status quo-ului" din Taiwan prin forță sau extorcare și că va menține această politică.

Taiwan's P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft capture photos of a Chinese Wing Loong-10 operating in the area

Chinese Foreign Ministry: We oppose any form of official exchanges between Taiwan and countries with which we have diplomatic relations.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te warned of deepening effort by mainland China to infiltrate the island, and said Taipei has no choice but to take more pro-active actions using the anti-Infiltration Law. He ordered a review of the Military Trial Law/military trials among other measures. Restoring military trials would allow the judiciary and prosecutors to handle cases in which military officers commit crimes such as rebellion, leaking confidential information and aiding the enemy, Per President Lai.

China spune că va depune cele mai mari eforturi pentru a realiza „reunificarea pașnică" cu Taiwan, după ce săptămâna trecută a declarat că insula nu va fi niciodată „o țară"

Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 4 km ESE of Yujing, Taiwan

Trump on relocating chips manufacturing to the US: "It will at least give us a position where we have in this very very important business, we would have a very big part of it in the US if something should happen with Taiwan."