List of Taiwan articles
![Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks onstage before the start of the third day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-rnc-GettyImages-2162445599.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Trump Is Giving Taiwan the Ukraine Treatment
Trump’s transactional approach to Taiwan sets him apart from the China hawks advising him.
![Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, wearing a bomber jacket with an F-16 jet embroidered on it, has a serious expression as he listens to an army officer wearing camouflage battle fatigues and a helmet. The officer points at something with one hand as he speaks to Lai. Other people are visible standing nearby, slightly out-of-focus in front of outdoor greenery.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/taiwan-military-GettyImages-2154461144.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Taiwan Aid Bill Won’t Fix the Arms Backlog
To help Taipei, Washington needs to get smarter about weapons transfers.
![Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sits onstage at a party meeting. He crosses his arms and puts one hand over his face in contemplation as he watches the proceedings.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/modi-taiwan-india-GettyImages-2147791258.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Modi’s Taiwan Ties Have Rattled China
India’s overtures to the island have coincided with a breakdown in its relationship with Beijing.
![Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te at his party's headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 13.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Lai-Ching-te-election-GettyImages-1929805197.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
When Will Washington Get Serious About Taiwan?
Its long-standing attitude toward the island is based on a set of military and political foundations that no longer exist.
![A top-down view of a number of Taiwanese dishes on a dark table.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/taiwan-inauguration-menu-food-diplomacy-elizabeth-kao-1.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Taiwan’s Dinner Table Diplomacy
One of the courses at Lai Ching-te’s inauguration banquet is rumored to be a playful nod to Xi Jinping.
![Following increased Chinese military exercises near the island, flares are fired during a Taiwanese military live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/taiwan-us-china-GettyImages-1243039879.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
China and the U.S. Are Numb to the Real Risk of War
The pair are dangerously close to the edge of nuclear war over Taiwan—again.
![A locally produced drone is seen on display during a media tour at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1248205491.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Taiwan Wants Suicide Drones to Deter China
Taipei is seeking U.S.-made loitering munitions to help deter or ward off a potential Chinese invasion.
![Taiwan’s reserve soldiers take part in military training during a two-week education convocation at a local Taoist temple in Hsinchu, Taiwan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2088922563.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Congress Helps Steer Taiwan Toward the ‘Porcupine Strategy’
The national security bill gives Biden more leverage to tell Taiwan what weapons to buy.
![Protesters speak with police during a demonstration dubbed 'Fabewoso - Bring it on' to raise awareness about the high rate of corruption in the country, in Accra on May 26, 2017.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ghana-elections-corruption-GettyImages-688705928.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
What Ghana Can Learn From Taiwan
As vote-buying corrupts the country’s politics, the West African nation could learn from Taipei’s effective crackdown on the practice.
![A group of people on motorbikes ride on the street in front of a massive microchip fabrication plant. The company name, TSMC, is displayed in large red letters on the front of the building.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/taiwan-microchip-taichung-GettyImages-1708749142.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Chipmaking World Hedges Its Taiwan Bets
Earthquake or not, building semiconductor factories off the island has become a global imperative.
![U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stand for their national anthems during an arrival ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/biden-kishida-GettyImages-2147028142.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Question Looming Over Biden’s White House Summit: Where Are the Exit Ramps?
As the leaders of Japan and the Philippines present a united front with America, China is getting stronger, too.
![Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen attends the inauguration ceremony for Taiwan-made warships in Yilan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/taiwan-navy-ship-tsai-GettyImages-2105340826.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
It’s Debatable’s Greatest Hits
In their 100th column, Matt and Emma revisit clashes over Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran—and how to deter an alien invasion.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to mark the delivery of nuclear fuel to Turkey's first nuclear power plant, Akkuyu, via a video link from Moscow.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Putin-Russia-GettyImages-1252231905.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Did Russia Come Close to Using a Nuclear Device in 2022?
CNN reporter Jim Sciutto on the return of great-power conflict.
![A migrant worker wearing a camouflage patterned jacket and a yellow hard hat rides a tricycle on a road in front of a building wall with a large mural. The man's head is tilted toward the mural, which shows three red and black fists against an orange and yellow striped background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/china-economy-GettyImages-52774918.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
China’s Public Wants to Make a Living, Not War
Discontent about the country’s poor economic reality is starting to drown out nationalist calls to attack Taiwan.
![A man walks in front of an animated map of the world at an exhibition at the Hong Kong Science Museum.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1095753646.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
China Is Selectively Bending History to Suit Its Territorial Ambitions
Beijing’s unwillingness to let go of certain claims suggests there’s more at stake than reversing past losses.