TAIPEI: Taiwan said it was “on alert” as it detected a Chinese aircraft carrier group to its south on Sunday, days after the United States warned Beij...
Taiwanese soldiers stand in formation beside US-made M101 howitzers during a visit by Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te at the air force base in Hualien on May 28, 2024. - Sam Yeh / AFP
China has ramped up military activity around Taiwan in recent years, sending in warplanes and other military aircraft while Chinese ships maintain a near-constant presence around its waters. In his speech on Thursday, Lai vowed to “resist annexation” of the island, and insisted Beijing and Taipei were “not subordinate to each other”.
The current dispute between China and Taiwan dates back to a civil war in which the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek were defeated by Mao Zedong’s communist fighters and fled to Taiwan in 1949.
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