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Taiwan’s vice president, whose party has emphasized the island’s sovereignty, defeated an opposition party that favors reviving engagement with China.

Beijing loathes the new president, Lai Ching-te. He aims to protect the status quo with caution and American help, but tensions are likely to rise.

Billionaire CCP member Chen Tianqiao’s $85M purchase of nearly 200K acres in Oregon made him the second-largest foreign owner of US farmland — and it was a secret for nearly a decade.

Taiwan has elected former vice president Lai Ching-te as the country's new leader, delivering the sovereignty Democratic Progressive party an unprecedented third term. Lai served alongside former president Tsai Ing-wen from 2020. In his victory speech, Lai told a gathering of supporters: 'We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism we will stand on the side of democracy'

Lai’s Democratic Progressive party wins unprecedented third term in result likely to anger China
Taiwan has voted for Lai Ching-te to be its next president, ushering in a historic third term in power for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party (DPP), in a result that will anger Beijing and heighten tensions across the Taiwan strait.
The victory of Lai, who since 2020 had served as vice-president to Tsai Ing-wen, marks the continuation of a government that promoted a sovereign Taiwan and a national identity separate to China, and oversaw some of the deepest cross-strait tensions in decades as Beijing pushed towards its goal of annexation.

With China and Russia as its allies, the authoritarian regime is assembling a Middle Eastern coalition as Washington’s influence wanes
The first of what may be manyon Iranian-backed Houthi Shia militants in Yemen marks another dismaying milestone on a long trail of western policy failures in the Middle East – the most pivotal and consequential of which remains the decades-old failure to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The fact the US, backed by Britain, was obliged to use force in response to trade-strangling Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping reflects an unpalatable reality: Washington’s political leverage is waning, its diplomacy ineffectual, its authority scorned. Undaunted, the Houthis vowed attacks would continue.
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The Brothers Sun' co-creator Byron Wu discusses the inspiration behind the two brothers, working with a predominantly Asian team and Michelle Yeoh.

Akshay Bhatia tied at 14 in Hawaii as he continued his good form into the second event of the 2024 season of the Sony Open.

Beijing has criticised frontrunner Lai Ching-te as a ‘separatist’ as it seeks to intimidate self-ruling island
Vote counting got under way on Saturday in Taiwan’s presidential election, held under the that choosing a leader it disapproves of could set the stage for war on the self-ruled island.
Beijing criticised frontrunner Lai Ching-te, the current vice-president, as a dangerous “separatist” in the days leading up to the poll and, on the eve of the vote, its defence ministry vowed to “crush” any Taiwanese independence attempts.

21."Here's my grandparents, Amy and Joe, and my mom, Wendy, when she was little! This photo was taken when they first came to America from Taiwan in 1983, I believe. They opened a Chinese restaurant ...