Tag: Taiwan

• Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Taiwan disburses third donation to Paraguayan hospitals

  

  Taiwanese authorities announced Wednesday in Asuncion a US$ 4,800,000 disbursement of a monetary donation to Paraguay's Health Ministry to be allocated to the Trauma Hospital, the Itauguá Hospital, and the Pediatric Children's Hospital of Acosta Ñu. It was the third installment of a US$ 14,992,733 donation from the Asian island for the “improvement of the Quality of Care of the Establishments of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare,” according to a statement from the Paraguayan Ministry.

• Monday, April 17th 2023 - 22:58 UTC

  G7 foreign ministers working for consensus on a possible escalation of China/Taiwan conflict

  

  China became a controversial topic in discussions on Monday as the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies gathered in Japan for a second day of talks, with the European Union divided as to how react to a Taiwan major conflict.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:10 UTC

  British solo sailor successfully rescued by Taiwanese jigger 900 miles from the Falklands

  

  British solo sailor Ian Herbert-Jones has been successfully rescued by a Taiwanese fishing vessel after being rolled, dismasted, and injured in a major storm in the South Atlantic, reports the Yachting Monthly.

• Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

  Russia says China has the right to respond to “provocations” with military exercises

  

  Russia today considered that China has the right to respond with military maneuvers to the “provocations” taking place around Taiwan, exercises that Beijing successfully completed on Monday.

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  First shipment of Paraguayan pork lands in Taiwan

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez headed a delegation from the South American country visiting Taiwan to celebrate the arrival of the first pork shipment to that Asian market. Marking the occasion a ceremony was held in Taipei on Wednesday during which attendees could taste the new product as local businessmen pledged to increase imports shortly.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Chile pressured to take sides in USA-China feud

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font said Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, that his administration had been pressured “to say which side we are on” in the escalating tension between China and the United States which is focused mainly on the issue of Taiwan.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Paraguay in the process of switching Taiwan for the Chinese market?

  

  Is Paraguay about to dump Taiwan for China? Landlocked Paraguay and a leading exporter of soybeans and beef, plus an ample surplus of hydroelectric energy, is the only country in South America, and Mercosur member, that still has full diplomatic relations with Taipei, and continues to give its back to Beijing, but this could be changing or in a transition process.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  US to increase military aid to Taiwan

  

  Funding worth more than US$ 1.1 billion has been pledged from the United States to Taiwan, according to Pentagon sources quoted Friday by the press. The measure will help the island strengthen its missile and radar systems, a State Department spokesman also said.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Republican Governor lands in Taiwan in yet another chafing mission for Beijing

  

  Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey Tuesday landed in Taipei in yet another US delegation trip enraging Beijing over direct ties between sovereign countries and the island the Asian giant deems a rogue province.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 20:46 UTC

  Tensions heat up in Indo-Pacific after US Navy sends cruisers

  

  China has said the United States was trying to disrupt peace in the Taiwan Strait after two warships sailed through the waters between the mainland and what Beijing regards as a rogue province in what Washington dubbed a routine drill.