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View the latest Taiwan news and videos, including politics and business headlines.

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  • Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaking in Tokyo on November 7, 2025.
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    Japanese PM’s Taiwan comments prompt China to ban certain exports to Japan
  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Latin American Affairs Qiu Xiaoqi meet at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela January 2, 2026. Marcelo Garcia/Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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    Maduro’s capture is a blow to China. But on Chinese social media it’s being hailed as a blueprint for Taiwan
  • A woman works in a noodle store near a television screen showing a news report on China's "Justice Mission 2025" military drills around Taiwan, in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday.
    Tsai Hsin-Han/Reuters
    China stages war games around Taiwan after hitting out at major US arms deal
  • A map from the United States Geological Survey charts an earthquake that occurred some 32 km (20 miles) off Taiwan's northeastern coastal city of Yilan on Saturday, December 27, 2025.
    United States Geological Survey
    Taiwan rattled by 7.0 magnitude quake, no major damage reported
  • Four F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress operate as a joint force with the Gerald R. Ford on November 13, US military forces, like the Bainbridge, are deployed in support of the US Southern Command mission and the president’s priorities to disrupt illicit drug trafficking.
    Seaman Zamirah Connor/US Navy
    From AI to Venezuela: Why 2026 is a hinge year for global power
  • Taiwanese investigators secure the perimeter after several smoke grenades were set off inside the Taipei Main Station in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday.
    Ritchie B Tongo/EPA/Shutterstock
    Knife-wielding attacker kills three in central Taipei
  • Soldiers of the 58th Artillery Command mobolize the HIMARS missile system to a tactical position, as part of the ongoing Han Kuang military exercise, in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 12, 2025.
    Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Rockets, howitzers and suicide drones: US and Taiwan announce one of their biggest-ever arms deals
  • US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at Gimhae International Airport, South Korea, on October 30, 2025.
    Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
    Trump’s security strategy is making a hard pivot on China. Why now?
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  • US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025.
    Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
    China warns Taiwan and human rights remain among its ‘red lines’ after Trump-Xi talks
    Nov 4, 2025
  • Statues of soldiers on the Bada Tower are seen in Kinmen, Taiwan, on October 28, 2025.
    I-HWA CHENG/AFP/AFP via Getty Images
    Taiwan worries about US support wavering ahead of Trump’s meeting with Xi
    Oct 30, 2025
  • The oil terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September, 26.
    Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images
    Taiwan bought over $1.3 billion worth of a Russian oil product this year, report says
    Oct 2, 2025
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Factory in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China on the evening of September 11, 2025.
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    Taiwan says it will resist pressure from Washington to move half of chip production to US
    Oct 2, 2025
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  • Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind shakes hands with Taiwan's outgoing leader Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan on May 15, 2024.
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    Drag queen Nymphia Wind performs at Taiwan’s presidential office
  • Photos shine a light on Taiwan’s ‘betel nut beauties’
  • How Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper withstands earthquakes
  • Secretive power plant in Taiwan opens to public for the first time — as an art space

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  • Photo taken in Hualien, eastern Taiwan, on April 5, 2024, shows fallen rocks on a road leading to Taroko National Park, following a powerful earthquake on April 3. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)
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    Taiwan’s Taroko National Park closed ‘until further notice’ following earthquake
  • Coldplay has a request: They really, really want to play in China
  • Taipei protests against Beijing’s ‘unilateral’ moving of flight path closer to sensitive median line
  • Taiwan’s ‘Elephant Trunk Rock’ has collapsed

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