Taiwan launched its largest ever military drills on Wednesday, starting with simulated attacks on its command systems and infrastructure ahead of a Chinese invasion, senior defence officials said.

Starboard Maritime Intelligence data revealed that Chinese research ships last year repeatedly scanned the ocean floor east of Taiwan’s maritime border and about 400km east and west of Guam; “waters that China’s navy considers strategically vital,” the article said.

Taiwan has launched its annual military exercises to counter threats from China, including “gray zone tactics” that stop short of open warfare

A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced new legislation to strengthen Taiwan’s undersea cable resilience and counter China’s grey zone tactics. The bills seek to improve maritime security and defend Taiwan’s international standing amid increasing geopolitical pressure from Beijing.

A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting Taiwan's undersea communication cables from Chinese "grey zone tactics" was introduced in the US Senate yesterday, Taipei Times reported.

Most typhoons come ashore on the island’s sparsely populated east coast, but Danas scraped its crowded western edge. Nearly 300,000 households had no power on Monday.

Showers and thunderstorms are today expected in the western half of Taiwan due to a lingering low-pressure system, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. Heavy rainfall is likely before noon in parts of central and southern Taiwan, the CWA said, adding that the wet weather is expected to gradually ease nationwide during the night.

Beijing’s sudden activation of another civilian air route near the Taiwan Strait’s unofficial median line has renewed alarm in Taipei, with defence experts and lawmakers warning the move could raise the risk of miscalculation in an already tense air corridor.

Momentum is building in Taiwan to lessen its business dependency on China, its biggest trading partner. Doing so will not be easy.

The Taipei City Government’s Department of Information and Tourism (DOIT) invited two of the Philippines’ most influential travel content creators to experience and promote Taipei.