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In Tokyo speech to conservative lawmakers, former British PM issues warning about Chinese aggression

Does she really think Xi’s threats to Taiwan will be stopped by the sabre-rattling of the failed PM of a former colonial power? asks foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said the balloon carried equipment registered to a state-owned electronics company in the northern city of Taiyuan.

Ms Truss was speaking in Japan in her first public speech since her resignation as prime minister.

Relations between Beijing and Washington have soured since the US accused China of sending a spy balloon into its airspace

A Rockhampton court heard 34-year-old Shao-Wei Wu was working as a massage therapist when he took photos of his clients' genitals and sexually assaulted and raped another. His sentence will likely mean deportation back to Taiwan.

Former PM to make first speech since her turbulent stint at No 10

Taiwan's Defense Ministry says it found a Chinese weather balloon on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations that such craft have been dispatched worldwide to spy on Washington and its allies

The Pentagon's top China official, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Chase, has arrived in Taiwan, two sources familiar with matter said on Friday, beginning a visit that could exacerbate tensions between Beijing and Washington.

The U.S. is sending its top China defense official to Taiwan in the coming days, according to the Financial Times — though it’s unclear how Beijing will respond given the softer tone it has adopted in its diplomacy with the U.S. and allies recently.