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In this Saturday, June 29, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. Four decades after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with communist China, the relationship between the two is at a turning point. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

China is bracing for fresh tensions with Trump over trade, tech and Taiwan

By Simina Mistreanu - Associated Press

Song Zi-jie, 28 years old ride-hailing service driver, talks about his experience a day after a tree collapsed on his car while he was inside as Typhoon Kong-rey sweeps through Taipei, Taiwan on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

Taiwanese driver recounts his narrow escape during Typhoon Kong-rey

By Johnson Lai and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Participants attend the annual Taiwan LGBT Pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Thousands gather for colorful celebration at Taiwan Pride parade

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Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vows to resist Chinese threats to sovereignty in national address

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Taiwan's top diplomat in Washington, Alexander Tah-ray Yui, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) ** FILE **

Envoy insists Taiwan has right to U.N. membership, counters China’s claim from 1971 resolution

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr, poses for a photograph on Aug. 28, 2024, in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)

Pacific leaders’ summit erases mention of Taiwan after Chinese anger, fracturing a shaky accord

By Charlotte Graham-Mclay - Associated Press

FILE - Chinese rapper Wang Yitai performs at a concert in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province on March 16, 2024. Taiwan has cancelled a planned Taipei concert by a Chinese rapper after he used the insulting term “Taipei, China” in promotional materials. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Taiwan bans concert by Chinese rapper over insulting ‘Taipei, China’ promotional materials

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A fan hold a sign that reads "Sure Win" during the men's doubles gold medal match between China and Taiwan, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Taiwan asks for investigation into a fan at Olympic badminton having a sign taken away and ripped up

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Soldiers are assembled in front of the Taiwan national flag in Taoyuan, Northern Taiwan, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te inspected Taiwanese military on Thursday. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

‘Zero Day’ presents Taiwan’s nightmare scenario for island democracy viewers

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, center, arrives to speak at a gathering of the largest delegation of foreign lawmakers to visit Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The delegation by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC, is a group of hundreds of lawmakers from 35 countries concerned about how democracies approach Beijing. Lai told attendees that their participation showed the importance of democratic unity, even as Beijing put pressure on lawmakers not to attend the conference. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Taiwan president urges democracies to unite at largest-ever gathering of foreign lawmakers in Taipei

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Luke de Pulford, Executive Director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Chinese diplomats are pressuring lawmakers from at least six countries not to attend a China-focused conference hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in Taiwan, participants told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Lawmakers from 6 countries say Beijing is pressuring them not to attend summit in Taiwan

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

An Air Force F-16V fighter aircraft takes off during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Typhoon prompts cancellation of Taiwan air force drills but naval exercises set to continue

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te, right pose for photos with American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) Director Raymond F. Greene in Taipei, Taiwan on July 10, 2024. Greene who newly assumed his office on July 9, met with Taiwan President Lai in the morning of July 10, when both reiterated on the strong partnership Taiwan and the U.S. nurtured from the past, with ups and downs. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

New top U.S. envoy to Taiwan pledges to help the island with self-defense as threats from China loom

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FILE - Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai celebrates his victory after Taiwan's presidential election, in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Lai Ching-te is set to take office as Taiwan's new president on May 20. Building on the legacy of incumbent president Tsai, Ing-wen means aiming to strike a balance between cultivating Taiwan's unofficial alliance with the United States, and maintaining peace with China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be retaken by force if necessary. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan’s new president inherits a strong foreign policy position but political gridlock at home

By Simina Mistreanu and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Hualien Fire Department, firefighters and quarry workers evacuate a body from the Ho Ren Quarry a day after a powerful earthquake struck in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, Thursday, April 4, 2024. Rescuers are searching for people out of contact a day after Taiwan's strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings, caused multiple rockslides and killed several people. (Hualien Fire Department via AP)

Taiwan quake toll low, but aftershocks a risk as rescue effort continues

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

In this image taken from a video footage run by TVBS, a woman stands near a partially collapsed building in Hualien, eastern Taiwan on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. A powerful earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on Japanese islands. (TVBS via AP)

Strongest earthquake in 25 years rocks Taiwan, killing 9 people and leaving hundreds injured

By Johnson Lai and Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Volunteers of Fake News Cleaner guide students through the LINE app to identify fake news during a class in Kaohsiung City, southern Taiwan, Thursday, March 16, 2023. An anti-misinformation group in Taiwan called Fake News Cleaner has hosted more than 500 events, connecting with college students, elementary-school children — and the seniors that, some say, are the most vulnerable to such efforts. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

In Taiwan, a group is battling fake news one conversation at a time — with a focus on seniors

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, right, poses for photos with Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Bergman leads a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation that pledged continued support for Taiwan on Thursday, days after Congress approved $300 million in military aid for the self-governed island that's claimed by China. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. congressional delegation pledges continued defense support for Taiwan

By Simina Mistreanu - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center exchange gifts with U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., left and Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif, right in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus are making their first trip to the island after an independence-leaning party won a third straight term in the island's presidential elections this month. arrived Wednesday. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

A U.S. Congressional delegation affirms bipartisan support for Taiwan in first visit since election

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's Vice President and President Elect Vice President Lai Ching-te, right listens as U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif. and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., left meets him in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus are making their first trip to the island after an independence-leaning party won a third straight term in the island's presidential elections this month. U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, a Democrat from California, and Florida Republican Mario Díaz-Balart arrived Wednesday. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

First congressional delegation in Taipei to congratulate president-elect

By By Chrisopher Bodeen - Associated Press