Australian Senator David Fawcett recently defended a motion he co-led that criticizes China's attempts to assert sovereignty over Taiwan, Nikkei Asia reported.
Chinese companies dominate the globe's maritime supply chain and is home to seven of the world's ten busiest ports. With capacity doubling over the past decade, China now controls the world's largest shipping fleet by gross tonnage, plus it produces more than 95% of shipping containers. W
Japan's Vice foreign minister Masataka Okano summoned China's acting ambassador late on Monday to lodge a "extremely serious protest," and called for measures against a recurrence, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement.
Nine of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southeastern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
The CBS report states that Yuanjun Tang, who had previously protested against the Chinese Communist Party during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and later sought refuge in Taiwan and the US, is accused by prosecutors of agreeing to work for China's intelligence agency decades later.
On August 25, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council announced that Chinese rapper Wang Yitai would be denied entry to Taiwan due to the use of the term "Taipei, China" in his promotional materials for a scheduled September 14 concert. The MAC's decision followed the revelation that ticket sales
The United States, has condemned the "unsafe, unlawful, and aggressive conduct" by China which has a long standing defence treaty with the Philippines and has reiterated its support to Manila.
A Chinese singer who was set to perform in Taiwan in mid-September had his entry application denied by the Taiwanese authorities after he used the term "Taipei, China" in his promotional materials, Focus Taiwan reported, citing local media on Sunday.
"Taiwan is a reliable, like-minded, and democratic partner, and its partnerships -- official and unofficial -- around the world provide significant and sustainable benefits to the citizens of those countries," the US State Department spokesperson told CNA.
The Chinese naval forces on Sunday orchestrated an aggressive and dangerous manoeuvre near the Hasa-Hasa Shoal commonly known as the Half Moon Shoal, a statement by the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTFWPS) said.