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Trump-Xi summit comes with high stakes for Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its own

DIPLOMACY Theodoros Benakis - May 11, 2026

By AAMER MADHANI and SIMINA MISTREANU WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach...

Paraguay and Taiwan reaffirm ties after China sought to lure away another Taipei ally

DIPLOMACY Theodoros Benakis - May 8, 2026

By JOHNSON LAI and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña said Friday that his country deeply values its ties with Taiwan, in...

Rights summit in Zambia is canceled after Chinese pressure to exclude Taiwanese activists

EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Theodoros Benakis - May 2, 2026

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The U.S.-based organizers of an international human rights conference said they canceled it days...

Taiwan’s president lands in Eswatini in a trip delayed by lack of overflight clearance

EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Theodoros Benakis - May 2, 2026

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said he arrived in the African nation of Eswatini on Saturday, days after his government was...

Former President of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, Adamová, honoured by Taiwan’s President Lai

CZECH REPUBLIC European Interest - January 24, 2026

On 20 January, the President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, conferred the Order of Brilliant Star with Special Grand Cordon upon Markéta Pekarová Adamová, the...

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