A senior Taiwan official pointed to companies in Ukraine including Uber and Microsoft which continued to provide critical services.

Taiwan and the Czech Republic, living in the shadow of Russia and China, have found common cause.

The Chinese military has increased pressure on Taiwan in recent years with continuous military exercises, deploying fighter jets and warships around the island. "The more unruly the separatist independence advocates in Taiwan become,

Officially, the US acknowledges China's position while supplying the island with weapons to defend itself in the event of an attack. All this makes Taiwan one of the most important geopolitical flashpoints in the world. On both sides of the Taiwan Strait people have grown accustomed to the uncertainty and tension.

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal

Following an Oval Office blowup and a European-led summit, a path to ending the war in Ukraine seems more unclear than ever as new rifts emerge between the United States and the European Union. For China,

Taiwan needs to dramatically hike defense spending to around 10% of gross domestic product in order to deter a war with China, President Donald Trump's nominee to become a top Pentagon policy advisor said on Tuesday.

Taiwan's coast guard said it was investigating whether the incident was sabotage but said "it cannot be ruled out that it was a gray zone intrusion."

China pushed back against recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, declaring that Washington could never "sow discord" in its ties with Moscow. Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.