Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is an island separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. Mainland China, officially the People’s ...

which were severed when the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. U.S. interests in Taiwan are represented by the American Institute in Taiwan. provides that ...

Since 2016, 10 of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies have switched to recognize the People’s Republic of China instead. While military tactics and economic statecraft have garnered much of the world ...

Taiwan split from the People's Republic of China during a civil war in the 1940s, but Beijing has always viewed the island as a rogue breakaway territory to be brought back under control ...

forcing Chiang Kai-shek and the defeated Republic of China government to flee to Taiwan in 1949. Despite their democratically-elected government, currency, passports and international diplomatic ...

asked whether Trump's comments could provide impetus to China creating trouble over Taiwan, said that the Republic of China, the island's official name, is a "sovereign and independent country".

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China ... "But the PRC (People's Republic of China) has not always welcomed that, which is partly why it has ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan celebrated its National Day holiday Thursday against the background of threats from China, which claims the self-governing island republic as its own territory. The celebration ...

Guatemala’s relations with the Republic of China go back nine decades, before the government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who set up the People ...