The decision to purchase eight nuclear-powered submarines will have profound implications for Australia,with little or no military or defence benefit.
“We live in a tough neighbourhood and we need to be prepared”,says Shingo Yamagami.
Don’t believe the hype – the narrative that Australia’s bilateral relations with China have turned a corner is a mirage.
Taiwan and China have repeatedly sparred over their respective measures to control the spread of the coronavirus.
Taiwan will extend compulsory military service from four months to one year from 2024 to combat a rising threat from neighbouring China.
There was no sense of alarm on the self-governing island,which has witnessed a steady increase in Chinese pressure in recent years.
With Australia considered one of Washington’s most important and reliable partners,it is likely to find itself in a bind if the US defends Taiwan against China.
The country’s deputy PM says his country will not support “forceful actions” by either of his two neighbours - Russia and China.
In the first visit by Australian MPs since 2019,the six federal MPs from the Coalition and Labor will fly out of Australia for Taiwan on Sunday.
It says a lot about the Taiwanese culinary appetite that the National Palace Museum's most famous artefact is a fragment of banded jasper carved into pork belly.
The DPP had warned that “the front line of democracy” was under assault from Beijing,but its message did not resonate with voters,especially the young who see Kuomintang’s Chiang Wan-an as “the future”.