Everybody seems to be talking about war as China ramps up its rhetoric and its live-fire military exercises in the seas and skies around Taiwan. But not so much the Taiwanese. I asked journalist and president of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club William Yang: What is the rest of the world getting wrong?
Beijing has announced it will carry out more drills in the waters surrounding Taiwan a day after they were scheduled to end, as tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan experts and officials have refrained from calling the recent tensions a "crisis." “There's apparently an overreaction by the foreign media and also by policy experts in the U.S.," one Taipei-based political scientist said. "In Taiwan, people just don't see it as a very severe crisis right now.”
As tensions in the Taiwan Strait and between the U.S. and China ratchet up, the language used by Chinese officials is becoming more colorful and bellicose.
China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is likely to go on for a long time, in many different areas. Aside from live fire military drills around Taiwan, Beijing has announced the suspension of a variety of dialogues with the U.S.
It’s not yet a headlong rush, but Western firms are quietly pulling out of China. Jeep, one of the earliest American companies to set up shop in the country, is closing its last factory there.
John Culver, former national intelligence officer for East Asia and CIA analyst focusing on China, reflects on the last Taiwan Straits Crisis in 1995-96, following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent high-profile visit to Taiwan.
The Dragon and the Bear will only get closer as Western tensions with China and Russia mount.
In the aftermath of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile visit to Taiwan, Beijing has fired off ballistic missiles in the waters surrounding the island and has promised days of live-fire military tests and drills.