The DPP's Lai Ching-te wins Taiwan election
With 99 percent of the 17,795 polling stations reporting as of 8:40 p.m. Saturday, Lai had 5,543,447 votes, or 40.1 percent, ahead of his two opponents
With 99 percent of the 17,795 polling stations reporting as of 8:40 p.m. Saturday, Lai had 5,543,447 votes, or 40.1 percent, ahead of his two opponents
The U.S. and Taiwan reached a consensus on Aug. 17 on the negotiating mandate for the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade announced on June 1, 2022, the Office of United States Trade Representative (USTR) said in a statement Wednesday.
"At present, the threat of Chinese military force has not decreased," Tsai told air force officers, according to a statement from her office.
US House speaker leaves island as China orders live-fire drills off coast
China sends 30 warplanes into Taiwan air defence zone. It came days after US President Joe Biden warned China against invading Taiwan, and on the same day as a US official visited the island to discuss security with leaders.
Claimed by China as its own territory, Taiwan has come under growing military and political pressure to accept Beijing's rule, including repeated Chinese air force missions in Taiwan's air defence identification zone, to international concern.
Tammy Duckworth and Dan Sullivan of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Christopher Coons of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will visit the island on Sunday as part of a larger trip to to the Indo-Pacific region, the American Institute in Taiwan said.
Tsai says the government has worked through a number of different channels to buy vaccine doses. She says there is no need to worry, as those doses will arrive soon.