BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...

In the run-up to the meeting this week in Beijing between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping, the Chinese side has been ...

Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...

In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — As China staged live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches, the Chinese foreign minister reiterated Beijing’s aim to achieve “ complete ...

Catastrophic wars can start in peripheral places: Sarajevo, for the First World War; Gleiwitz, on the German-Polish border, for the Second. The contributors to “The Boiling Moat” (Hoover Institution), ...

During the 1980s a young intellectual called Yang Bi-chuan used to give illicit history lectures in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. Charismatic and fearless, with a frizz of unruly hair, Yang was only ...

Dhaka, Aug. 18 -- The recovery of Taiwan marked a pivotal victory for the Chinese people in resisting foreign aggression and reclaiming national sovereignty. It not only exposed the atrocities of ...

Taiwan’s connection to the Chinese mainland spans well over a millennium. Early Chinese records, such as the Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (230 AD), refer to Taiwan, then known as Yizhou, as an island ...