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 ...

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The Dutch eventually expel the Spanish before being defeated in 1662 by Koxinga, a military leader loyal to China’s Ming dynasty. In 1684, the Qing dynasty, newly in power, incorporates the island as ...

A LOT of us are ignorant about Taiwan, even if it is one of our closest neighbors. In fact, the ethnic Taiwanese are related to us by blood and language as Austronesians. But I did not mind because in ...

Monday, Oct. 6, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the second most important festival for Chinese all over the world (the most important is, of course, the Lunar New ...