Taiwan's coast guard minister visited Taiping Island, the nation's only South China Sea holding, conducting exercises framed as humanitarian operations to assert territorial claims using Beijing's gray zone tactics in strategically vital, resource-rich disputed waters.
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council minister visited disputed Taiping Island in the South China Sea for the first time in seven years, observing coast guard exercises amid escalating regional tensions with China and concurrent US-Philippines military drills.
Vietnam protests Taiwan's exercises in the Spratly Archipelago, citing sovereignty violations.
Taiwan stays on high alert as Chinese ships pull back after massive drills
Taiwan's coast guard minister visited the disputed Itu Aba island for the first ministerial visit in seven years, conducting exercises including armed boarding drills amid ongoing territorial claims by China, Vietnam, and the Philippines in the strategically vital South China Sea.
Taiwan's coast guard minister made a rare visit to Itu Aba Island for drills.
Taiwan's coast guard minister visits a Taiwan-controlled island in the South China Sea for drills.
Xi Jinping threatened Taiwan's unification as inevitable, escalating military rhetoric that has intensified global concerns about potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait and broader geopolitical destabilization.
The largest Balikatan exercise concluded with a historic Japanese troop deployment to the Philippines.
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council Minister visited a second islet in the disputed South China Sea.
Taiwan sees only warships and warplanes as China talks peace with opposition
Ocean Affairs Council Minister Kuan Bi-ling visits Taiping Island to observe a maritime rescue drill.
Taiwan minister makes rare trip to disputed South China Sea island
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Minister visited disputed Itu Aba Island, staging coast guard drills amid US-Philippines military exercises and Chinese naval deployment, escalating South China Sea tensions and raising travel sector risks across a critical Asian maritime corridor.
Iran conflict prompts Taiwan to review security in the Taiwan Strait, a critical global maritime chokepoint.
Taiwan Beefs Up Maritime Defense Amid Strait Tensions
The Philippines and United States concluded their largest joint Exercise Balikatan with 17,000 troops and allies including Japan, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, amid escalating South China Sea tensions over China's island construction and disputed territorial claims.
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council Minister visited a second islet in the disputed South China Sea.
Taiwan minister makes rare visit to disputed South China Sea island
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council minister visited the disputed Itu Aba island for the first time in seven years, conducting coast guard exercises including armed boarding drills amid escalating South China Sea tensions between Taiwan, China, and other claimant nations.
Taiwan minister makes rare visit to disputed South China Sea island for armed drills
Taiwan's coast guard minister visited the disputed Itu Aba island for rare drills, marking the first ministerial visit in seven years, conducting armed boarding exercises on suspicious vessels to assert sovereignty amid overlapping territorial claims.
Iran conflict prompts Taiwan to review security in the Taiwan Strait, a critical global maritime chokepoint.
Taiwan's opposition leader visits China, sparking concerns it will serve Xi's propaganda.