China, US deploy warships over Taiwan and South China Sea in what risks a military confrontation.
Appeal comes as 103 Chinese military aircraft and nine navy ships detected around the self-ruled island.
Amid tensions with China, people on the longtime Taiwanese frontline island of Kinmen warn against a return to war.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says Taiwan is ‘not for sale’ after Musk discusses Beijing’s stance on the island.
US Senator Chris Murphy calls for additional $235m to be withheld over Egypt’s ‘egregious human rights record’.
Taiwan suspects China is conducting drills involving the Shandong aircraft carrier but there has been no confirmation.
Analysts say Chinese drills in the western Pacific are Beijing’s largest-ever manoeuvres involving an aircraft carrier.
Island’s top diplomat says Taiwan under ‘constant threat’ from Beijing, which has ‘ambitions over a democratic country’.
Tsai is visiting Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, as African country marks 55 years of independence.
Taiwan wakes up to toppled trees, persistent rain and floods after Typhoon Haikui made landfall on Monday.
Mass evacuations, cancelled flights as storm plunges thousands of households into darkness.
Super Typhoon Saola’s top wind speeds recorded at 220km/h as it approaches China’s southern coast.
The move is likely to anger Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as its own territory.
The fast-growing scam centres are generating billions of US dollars in revenue each year, the report said.
