Global Geopolitics and Geoeconomics NewsTaiwan says its chip firms will adhere to new U.S. rules blacklisting China supercomputing entities. The U.S. move came amid its rising tensions with China over Taiwan.
SOURCE: REUTERS
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The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island. Military action has steadily escalated in the seas and skies around Taiwan in recent months as the U.S. pushes back against Chinese attempts to intimidate the government in Taipei.
SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES
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Taiwan to buy new U.S. air defence missiles, as the island bolsters its forces to guard against a rising threat from China. Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained of repeated incursions by China’s air force in recent months into the island’s air defence identification zone, as Beijing seeks to pressure Taipei into accepting its sovereignty.
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Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, in the largest incursion by the Chinese air force since Taiwan’s defence ministry began disclosing almost daily Chinese military flights over the waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea last year.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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Taiwan says it’s now making long-range missile capable of striking China, as tension rise. China claims Taiwan as its own territory, viewing the Taipei government as a breakaway province and it has stepped up military activity to back up its claims.
SOURCE: RT
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Taiwan has bolstered its military presence in the disputed South China Sea, as the US approved the export of submarine technology for the island’s fleet. On the other hand, has increased its military presence on Itu Aba, the main island of the Paracels archipelago occupied by Taiwan in the South China Sea. The military presence was bolstered due to China’s “expansionism” in the region.
SOURCE: RT
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The U.S. military hopes to create a network of longer-range, land-based missiles in the Western Pacific — including possibly on far-flung Japanese islands — as a means of deterring China from military action against Taiwan and over the Senkaku islets, the top commander for the Indo-Pacific region suggested. The Senkakus, which are also claimed by Beijing, are the site of escalating tensions. Taiwan, meanwhile, faces what some fear is a growing possibility of invasion by China.
SOURCE: JAPAN TIMES
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The US has sent the USS ‘John S. McCain’ past Chinese-controlled islands in the South China Sea as a show of strength in the first mission conducted since President Joe Biden took office. The warship had been carrying out operations in the region, having traveled through the Taiwan Strait, an area that divides mainland China and Taiwan. The South China Sea has been the subject of an ongoing dispute between the West and Beijing, as China secures territory and built military installations on artificial land, which countries, like the US, have claimed is illegal.
SOURCE: RT
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China intensified its rhetoric directed towards Taiwan and said its independence would result in war. Meanwhile, Taipei accused Beijing of flying a dozen military jets in its airspace in an act of intimidation. U.S. observers said China was intent on testing President Joe Biden, who had been sworn in just days before.
SOURCE: FOX NEWS
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China sent warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, into the South China Sea, breaching Taiwan’s airspace for a second day, provocations that come as a test in the early days of the Biden administration. In recent months, China has ramped up its naval presence in the region and criticized any military operations in the area by the US as “collusion” with Taiwan.
SOURCE: NEW YORK POST
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