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Taiwanese student, Zhang, worked alongside Liao to try and fraudulently claim £1 million in insurance payouts over leg amputations caused by frostbite.

The Chinese fishermen drowned while being chased away by the Taiwanese authorities.

China has issued a statement condemning Taiwan for the incident.

The 18th UK-Taiwan Renewable Energy Conference reinforced the UK and Taiwan's commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, gathering 150 experts to discuss renewable energy and emerging technologies.

Taiwan has claimed that as many as 103 Chinese warplanes flew towards the island in a new daily high.

The British parliament has called Taiwan an "independent country" in a report prepared by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons.

This significant event comes in the wake of a burgeoning trade partnership as both countries seek to expand their economic horizons.

Sunak has pushed back on Truss's tough rhetoric against China issued before and during her 49-day tenure in 10 Downing Street last year

Truss, who is expected to deliver a speech in Taipei on May 17, said in a statement: "Taiwan is a beacon of freedom and democracy."

Looking ahead to the upcoming G7 Hiroshima summit in May, questions remain over the significance and purpose of the organisation amidst the tensions of today's international order.

The Head of China Research at the French Institute of International Relations says that Macron's hopes of China acting as mediator in Ukraine are unrealistic.

China's military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island on Sunday, with the island's defence ministry reporting multiple air force sorties and that it was monitoring China's missile forces.

China views democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to take it one day, by force if necessary.

Britain's top diplomat added Beijing was "stoking tensions" with Taiwan -- the self-governing island which China considers its territory -- and trying to "strong-arm" other countries.

Britain approved a sharp increase in exports of submarine parts and technology last year to Taiwan as it upgrades its naval forces, a move that could impact British ties with China.

Taiwan's foreign minister has warned of a possible Chinese invasion in the year 2027 when Xi Jinping would be seeking a fourth term as president.

Taiwan is expected to announce on Tuesday an extension in mandatory military service from four months to one year, citing the threat from an increasingly hostile China, local media reported.

China sent a record 18 nuclear-capable H-6 bomber aircraft into Taiwan's air defense zone, informed the island's Defense Ministry on Tuesday.

Taiwan chip giant TSMC sees all-time high revenue in August

French lawmakers visit Taiwan after China's war drill threats

Taiwan's shooting down of a drone off the Chinese coast that buzzed a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most "appropriate" thing to do after repeated warnings, and China should exercise restraint, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday.

One of Taiwan's richest men, Robert Tsao, said on Thursday he would provide T$1 billion ($33 million) to two civilian defence training programmes, in a private effort to strengthen the island's defences amid heightened tension with China.

Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd said on Tuesday it would buy 16 Boeing Co 787 widebody planes to replace its ageing fleet of Airbus A330s following a widely watched contest held against the backdrop of regional tensions.

The more China provokes the more calm Taiwan must be, but restraint does not mean there cannot be "strong countermeasures" if needed, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday visiting front line forces based on islands in the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan saw off China's military six decades ago when its forces bombarded offshore Taiwanese islands and that resolve to defend the homeland continues to this day, President Tsai Ing-wen told a visiting group of former U.S.

The world was still learning to live with the highly contagious coronavirus when another potentially fatal virus, Langya, started rearing its head.

China has reported cases of a potentially fatal new virus called Langya, which is believed to have been transferred from shrews to humans.

China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week's visit to Taipei by U.S.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Monday that she was moved by his determination to visit Taiwan.

A senior Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman has prompted a storm of ridicule online.