Photo: Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. In response to an inquiry about the US House of Representatives recently passing the Fiscal Ye

Taiwanese voters rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist Party, in a recall election Saturday, dampening hopes for the ruling party to flip the balance of power in the self-ruled island’s legislature.

The votes could reshape the island democracy's parliament and the government's approach to its powerful neighbor.

Taiwan's Constitution, enacted in 1947 by its former Chinese Nationalist rulers who fought a civil war with China's Communist forces, still officially recognizes the authorities in Taipei as the ...

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te is set to delay until at least later this year a diplomatically sensitive trip his team had floated to Washington for August that would have included transit stops in the United States,

A frantic arms race between the US and China is underway in the Pacific while the fate of Taiwan hangs in the balance.

Taiwan's foreign ministry spokesperson told Newsweek there was "no such thing as a postponement, cancellation, or the U.S. side refusing a transit stop."

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called off an overseas trip planned for next week after the Trump administration failed to greenlight his stopover in the US, amid concerns it could derail trade talks with China.