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Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan's incoming president Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that a multi-billion US military aid package will "strengthen deterrence against authoritarianism", as China ramps up political and military pressure on the self-ruled island. Democratic Taiwan is claimed by China, which has said it would never renounce the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taipei has in recent years bolstered its economic and political ties with top partner and weapons provider the United States, a move that China has warned Washington against doing. The US House of Representatives passe...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved long-delayed military aid to Ukraine in a rare show of bipartisan unity, while also bolstering Israel and Taiwan defenses and threatening to ban Chinese-owned TikTok. The four bills in the $95 billion package were overwhelmingly approved in quick succession, though they leave the future of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson in some doubt as he seeks to fend off angry far-right detractors. US President Joe Biden said in a statement the legislation would "deliver critical support to Israel and Ukraine; provide desperatel...
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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Saturday quickly passed two key aid bills to counter China and bolster Taiwan while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it fails to divest from Beijing. Voting on major bills on Ukraine and Israel was yet to come. Lawmakers began voting on the foreign aid and arms bills, totaling some $95 billion, at 1:00 pm (1700 GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to rely on Democratic votes for passage. The bills are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for a...
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Washington (AFP) - A top US lawmaker said Wednesday he would visit Taiwan for the inauguration of President-elect Lai Ching-te, a year after his last trip to the self-governing democracy provoked anger from China. Representative Mike McCaul, who leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke alongside Taiwan's representative in Washington and lawmakers from both parties at an event in the US Capitol marking 45 years since a landmark law to support Taiwan. "I'll be leading a delegation to Taiwan to celebrate the president's inauguration," McCaul said of the ceremony set to take place on May 2...
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Taipei (AFP) - President-elect Lai Ching-te may have won the top job in Taiwan's elections, but he must now chart an uneasy path on the doorstep of an increasingly assertive China. Despite Beijing's warnings that Lai's win would bring "war and decline" to Taiwan, he won comfortably with more than 40 percent of the vote Saturday. In the face of China's rhetoric on Lai, here is what experts are saying is to come: Military pressures - Ahead of the poll, Beijing warned voters to make the "correct" choice, blasting Lai as a "severe danger" who would threaten peace by following the "evil path" of ...
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Beijing (AFP) - China's campaign of warplanes, balloons and fearsome rhetoric to intimidate voters in Taiwan's elections may have failed, but few expect President Xi Jinping to deviate from his strategy of maximum pressure. Taiwan voters on Saturday elected independence-leaning Lai Ching-te as president, handing an unprecedented third consecutive term to the Democratic Progressive Party, which Beijing strongly opposes. China, which split with Taiwan at the end of a civil war in 1949, regards the island as a renegade province that must eventually be reunified, by force if necessary. In the days...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met a senior Chinese official in Washington on Friday on the eve of Taiwan's elections, as the United States seeks to discourage Beijing from taking action against Taipei. Blinken, briefly back in Washington in between his latest Middle East crisis tour and a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, opened talks with Liu Jianchao, who heads the international division of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee. The two made no remarks as they started a meeting accompanied by top officials. Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy claimed ...
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Washington (AFP) - Taiwan's election had long loomed for US policymakers who feared a showdown with China. Ahead of the vote Saturday, Washington now largely expects to avoid near-term escalation -- but is taking no chances in the longer term. President Joe Biden plans to send a delegation to Taiwan after the election, and expects no let-up in rising defense and trade cooperation with the self-governing democracy claimed by Beijing, officials said. But the Biden administration has also stepped up dialogue with China, which has notched down its strident tone on the United States as President Xi...
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Taipei (Taiwan) (AFP) - The United States has extended a waiver to Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC to supply US chip-making equipment to its factories in China, the island's economic affairs minister said Friday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest contract producer of computer chips, was among the firms that received waivers last year when Washington imposed sweeping export restrictions to prevent China from getting advanced semiconductor technology. The United States says the restrictions are necessary to prevent Chinese advances in cutting-edge computing tech,...
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Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan chip giant TSMC's planned factory in the United States was making "fast progress", the company's chairman said Wednesday, despite it facing a delayed start due to worker shortages and reported union disputes. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) controls more than half of the world's output of microchips -- the lifeblood of the modern economy and found in everything from coffee machines to cars and missiles. Global worries about Taipei's plummeting relations with Beijing -- which claims the self-ruled island as its territory -- have fuelled a US push to succ...
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