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Turmoil over China’s influence in the affairs of South Pacific island nations has flared as it emerged that a Pacific leader at the region’s most important diplomatic summit apparently pledged to erase an affirmation of Taiwan’s involvement in the meeting from its closing statement

Lai Ching-te highlights Beijing’s contrasting approach to territorial loss during ‘century of humiliation’

The Pacific Islands Forum secretariat has removed a reference affirming Taiwan's status in the organisation from a previously-published communique.

China is developing new hypersonic weapons and other methods to threaten the island, defence ministry says

‘Visibly angry’ Qian Bo demands correction of Taiwan’s ‘development partner’ label despite its use for more than three decades

China's campaign of confrontation, from remote reefs in Southeast Asia to Taiwan and far-flung Japanese islands, is designed to wear down regional rivals competing with it for contested territories, analysts say.

For thousands of years, people in Taiwan pulled out healthy teeth. Now we know why they underwent this painful procedure.

Jake Sullivan, the first US national security advisor to visit China since 2016, met with Xi as he wrapped up three days of talks in the Chinese capital which also saw him meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other high-ranking officials.

Chinese leader speaks with Jake Sullivan, who was making his first visit to Beijing as US national security adviser