Taiwan Strait.

Giménez (R-Fla.), who also serves on the House select committee, denounced China’s military actions against Taiwan.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never ruled Taiwan, but it has said it aims to absorb the island and has not ruled out doing so by force.

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On Dec. 2, Trump signed the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act into law, requiring the U.S. State Department to review and update its guidelines for U.S. engagements with Taiwan at least once every five years.

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Trump signed the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act on Dec. 2, requiring the State Department to regularly review and update guidelines on official U.S.–Taiwan interactions.

Taiwan has detected a resumption of large-scale Chinese military drills in the Taiwan Strait, including 26 sorties between March 14 and March 15.

"If China were to impose a blockade around Taiwan, and the U.S. tried to free Taiwan from such a predicament, the dispatch of Chinese warships into the Taiwan Strait under such circumstances could constitute an existence-threatening situation," he told

Taiwan is responding to China’s latest military drills around the island. It condemns the Chinese regime's actions as a threat to regional security. China is quietly expanding the factories that build its nuclear weapons.

“Even attacking Taiwan is a political objective, not simply a territorial issue,” he said.

"For Taiwan, the most important thing is to deepen our ties with these countries."

It also reaffirmed that Washington does not support unilateral changes to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) has long sought to "reunite" Taiwan under Beijing's rule, despite Taiwan being a self-governed democracy.

objective of ‘unifying with Taiwan.’”

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Significantly and conversely, the PRC never controlled Taiwan.

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Under the “hellscape” concept, Taiwan would then strike when China is “most vulnerable”—as its forces cross the Taiwan Strait.

Japan–Taiwan ‘Shared Security Fate’ Wang said the deployment is a direct warning to Beijing, reflecting Tokyo's established stance that "a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency.”

The drills could even rally more international support for Taiwan."

Arthur Ding, professor emeritus at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, agreed but went further, saying China is also enlisting North Korea alongside Russia to intimidate external powers that support Taiwan.

The comments came a day after China's military wrapped a two-day exercise encircling Taiwan.

The Chinese communist regime has never ruled Taiwan but considers the island its own territory.

The United States has maintained a position of "strategic ambiguity" regarding the defense of Taiwan. Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the United States has no defense pact with Taiwan but continues to sell Taiwan arms.

More than 3,000 homes in Yilan briefly lost power, Taiwan Power Company said.

The two leaders spoke by phone on Feb. 4, during which Xi told Trump the Taiwan issue remains the most sensitive in U.S.–China relations and urged him “to handle the issue of arms sales to Taiwan with prudence.”

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He reiterated the CCP's stance that Taiwan is "an inalienable part of the territory of China," and that finding a way to resolve the Taiwan issue is "China's internal affair."