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Taiwan will extend the period that its citizens must perform mandatory military service from 2024 from four months to one year. President Tsai Ing-wen made the announcement this Tuesday morning (27), citing among the justifications the growing tension involving China, which sees the island as a rebel province. Pressure from …

posted on 12/27/2022 05:00 (credit: AFP) It was a weekend of apprehension in Taiwan amid a strong demonstration of China’s military might in the region. Beijing deployed 71 fighter planes and seven ships during military exercises around the island, Taipei’s Defense Ministry said yesterday. According to the daily update …

About 71 Chinese air force aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island’s government said on Monday, the biggest incursion in history. Of the aircraft, 43 also crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial …

China made the largest air mobilization in its history against Taiwan’s defenses in 24 hours, on Sunday (25) and this Monday (26). There were 71 fighter planes in the air, with more than half of them invading the virtual border that divides the island that Beijing considers its own. According …

the president of China, Xi Jinping, opened this Sunday (16) the 20th congress of the Communist Party in Beijing, an event that should confirm his third term in power. In his speech, he said the country had taken control of Hong Kong, the scene of major pro-democracy demonstrations …

Xi Jinping, 69, begins his definitive journey into the history books on Sunday, as the Chinese Communist Party opens its 20th Congress to enthron him for an unprecedented third term as leader of the world’s second-largest economy. The size of their challenge lies both at home and in the country …

Chinese ambassador to the United States of America thanked Tesla owner Elon Musk for the “peace” suggestion presented during an interview with the Financial Times. “I would like to thank Elon Musk for his request for peace in the Taiwan Strait,” Qin Gang, China’s ambassador to the US, wrote on …

Chinese ambassador to the United States of America thanked Tesla owner Elon Musk for the “peace” suggestion presented during an interview with the Financial Times. “I would like to thank Elon Musk for his request for peace in the Taiwan Strait,” Qin Gang, China’s ambassador to the US, wrote on …

North Korea has intensified missile firing in the Sea of ​​Japan over the past three years, tests that the country calls military exercises, but which, in essence, are a show of force to South Korea, the United States and other Western countries. In the next images, remember the sequence of …

It is not just for geopolitical reasons that Taiwan remains important to the United States. The island claimed by the Chinese is also protected by something much more subtle – its absolutely central role in world markets. More specifically, Taiwan is a colossus in the global semiconductor market, the brains …