Taiwán

Taiwan is awake to the danger — and, so too, it seems, is the United States. Reporting this past week from the Wall Street Journal pointed to the presence of a small deployment of U.S. troops in Taiwan, serving in a training capacity.

Record numbers of Chinese air force fighter jets and bombers conducting drills near Taiwan in recent days have escalated fears that Beijing is willing to use military brinkmanship to express displeasure with U.S. support of Taiwan, the self-governed island it claims as its own.

La Fuerza Aérea taiwanesa emitió advertencias y movilizó unidades hasta que las aeronaves abandonaron la ADIZ.

15:00 - Taiwan foreign minister says the country ‘very concerned’ China will launch a war against the island at some point.

Según el Ministerio de Defensa taiwanés, 19 aviones de combate chinos entraron la noche del sábado en su Zona de Identificación de Defensa Aérea (ADIZ).

China indicated that Taiwan’s path to joining a regional trade deal is going to be difficult, with a government spokeswoman saying that the fact that it could join the World Trade Organization shouldn’t be seen as a precedent.

19:16 - The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arrived in Taiwan on Thursday morning, health officials said. The delivery of the 930,000 doses came after a monthslong struggle to acquire BioNTech’s vaccines on the island.

El portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa de Taiwán, Shi Shunwen, aseveró hoy que las fuerzas armadas taiwanesas están listas para "responder en consecuencia" a las maniobras militares en el sur de la isla anunciadas por Pekín.

Taiwan will set up its first office in Europe using the name “Taiwan,” drawing a rebuke from China and praise from the U.S. as the island democracy seeks to strengthen its diplomatic presence around the globe in the face of pressure from Beijing.