Concerns that the Communist Party might someday seize control of Taiwan, possibly through force, have intensified in recent years due to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the					
                                
						U.S President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first direct talks since November later on Friday, amid growing US concern over Beijing’s relationship with Russia and					
                                
						Taiwan has reported the largest incursion since October by China’s air force into its air defence zone, with the island’s defence ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 39					
                                
						US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss a "united" Western alliance against deterrence in the Asia-Pacific region and Russia's threats to Ukraine					
                                
						The US is looking for ways to potentially accelerate delivery of Taiwan’s next generation of new-build F-16 fighter jets, the newest F-16 configuration with new avionics, a modernised cockpit, and					
                                
						China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, and has increased military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty claims					
                                
						Computer-based system evaluates significant activities that impacted US-Sino relations					
                                
						Taiwan’s Defence Ministry says a full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve due to problems China would have					
                                
						Former Japanese prime minister had warned of the serious consequences of Beijing taking the ‘wrong path’ over the self-ruled island					
                                
						Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the ASEAN summit on Monday that Beijing would not "bully" its smaller regional neighbors amid rising tensions in the South China Sea					
                                








