Timeline:Taiwan

Dated events for Taiwan, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-21

How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei - usni

2026-08-20

China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - diplomat

2026-07-01

Xi reaffirms Taiwan reunification goal on CCP's 105th anniversary, North Korea pledges solidarity - TRT World

2026-06-23

Dispatch from Ukraine - Brookings

2026-06-08

Show Us the Money - Foreign Policy

2026-06-06

Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il

2026-05-27

Is Accountability in Syria Possible? - Pulitzer Center

2026-05-15

Nicholas Kristof and Death By a Thousand Cuts - The Free Press

2026-05-01

Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-27

The Art of the Nuclear Deal - The New York Times

2026-04-26

Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-25

Tracking Chinese and Russian Statements on the Iran War - The Washington Institute

2026-04-17

Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-04-14

Israel-Lebanon Peace Talks, Strait of Hormuz Blockade and More - The New York Times

2026-04-06

New Airstrikes Batter Tehran - The New York Times

2026-04-01

Smirking Past the Gallows - The Atlantic

2026-03-27

The Blogs: Dazed and Confused - The Times of Israel

2026-03-25

Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-05

Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-28

Iran After the Ayatollah - Christianity Today

2026-02-27

Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-10

Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-09

The Gap between Perception and Reality - The Times of Israel

2026-02-03

A Lifeline for Gaza - The New York Times

2026-01-31

Gal Hirsch discusses Hamas, hostages with 'Post' - The Jerusalem Post

2026-01-28

Iran is out of good options - Defense Priorities

2026-01-19

How Turkey and Damascus Engineered a Kurdish Defeat - Modern Diplomacy

2026-01-15

Statement from Spain and France on Turkey. - haber7.com

2025-12-29

The Strange Fear of Russia - Geopolitical Futures

2025-12-23

A Real Negotiation Process - RAND

2025-12-19

Opinion | Weighing Politics and Morality in the Israel Debate - The New York Times

2025-12-12

Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-08

Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera

2025-12-07

The Road to Damascus - Al Jazeera

2025-11-19

Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) - Iran Watch

2025-11-18

Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-10-28

How Israel is winning the wars and losing the peace - NPR

2025-10-26

Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-14

Opinion | Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things - The New York Times

2025-10-13

Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-09

Cruise Missiles Are the Present and Future of Warfare - RAND

2025-10-08

Apocalypse in Gulf is now or never - Deccan Herald

2025-10-01

Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-29

Close to The Edge - Nowlebanon

2025-09-26

Israel - General Debate

2025-09-24

Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
History of the Kaaba - TRT World

2025-09-12

Survival Over Defection - persuasion.community - gnews

2025-09-05

Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-04

Disarmament or Diversion? Berri’s Maneuver and Hezbollah’s Outsourcing - Nowlebanon

2025-09-03

Busiest Ocean Trade Route - Marine Insight

2025-08-29

US Military Redeployment in Iraq: Strategic Withdrawal or Tactical Shift? - Geopolitical Monitor

2025-08-28

White Hats and Black Hats in the Middle East - Paul D. Miller - The Dispatch

2025-08-26

Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

A Security Guarantee for Ukraine? Look to the Taiwan Relations Act - Just Security
Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

Archaeological remains suggest they were initially hunter-gatherers that slowly shifted to intensive fishing. - Wikipedia
Area: 35,980 sq km - CIA World Factbook
Background: First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). - CIA World Factbook
Background: In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. - CIA World Factbook
Background: Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. - CIA World Factbook
Branches: Taiwan Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Information Communication and Electronic Force (ICEF); ; Ocean Affairs Council: Coast Guard Administration (CGA); ; Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Capital: Taipei - CIA World Factbook
Chief of state: President LAI Ching-te (since 20 May 2024) - CIA World Factbook
Climate: tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); persistent and extensive cloudiness all year - CIA World Factbook
Declining birth rates have also led to falling school enrollments, resulting in the merger or closure of some rural elementary and middle schools, with similar pressures increasingly affecting universities. - Wikipedia
During the martial law period, the Kuomintang promoted an official traditional Chinese culture over Taiwan in order to emphasize that the Republic of China represents the true orthodoxy to Chinese Culture as opposed to Communist China. - Wikipedia
Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of domestically produced and foreign-supplied armaments, mostly from the US either as secondhand or direct acquisitions; Taiwan's domestic defense industry produces weapons systems such as aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval platforms (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Ethnic groups: Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3% - CIA World Factbook
Expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Government type: semi-presidential republic - CIA World Factbook
Head of government: Premier CHO Jung-tai (President of the Executive Yuan) (since 20 May 2024) - CIA World Factbook
Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated 20,000 to 30,000 years ago have been found. - Wikipedia
It has one of the world's lowest fertility rates, with the average number of children born per woman falling below 0.8, far beneath the replacement level of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. - Wikipedia
It was Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. - Wikipedia
Labor shortages have emerged across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and elderly care. - Wikipedia
Languages: Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages - CIA World Factbook
Legal system: civil law system - CIA World Factbook
Life expectancy: 81.6 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China - CIA World Factbook
Major urban areas: 4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023) - CIA World Factbook
Median age: 45.1 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Natural resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land - CIA World Factbook
Paleolithic Taiwanese likely settled the Ryukyu Islands 30,000 years ago although other studies suggest no genetic contribution from the aborigines of Taiwan into Ryukyuans. - Wikipedia
Personnel: approximately 170,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Population: 23,600,776 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2% (2005 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Slash-and-burn agriculture practices started at least 11,000 years ago. - Wikipedia
Stone tools of the Changbin culture have been found in Taitung and Eluanbi. - Wikipedia
Study of the human remains suggested they were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. - Wikipedia
Taiwan has a population of about 23.3 million, most of whom are on the island of Taiwan. - Wikipedia
Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. - Wikipedia
Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west - CIA World Factbook
The Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan had led to some aspects of Chinese Culture being better preserved there than in mainland China, for example the continued use of Traditional Chinese. - Wikipedia
The General Assembly of Chinese Culture was established to help promote Chinese culture in Taiwan and overseas. - Wikipedia
The aging population has raised concerns about the long-term sustainability of Taiwan's National Health Insurance system, as a shrinking workforce supports a growing elderly population. - Wikipedia
The cultures of Taiwan are a hybrid blend from various sources, incorporating elements of the majority traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal cultures, Japanese cultural influence, traditional Confucianist beliefs, and increasingly, Western values. - Wikipedia
The distinct Wangxing culture, found along the Jingshan River of Miaoli County, seemed to have initially been gatherers who shifted to hunting. - Wikipedia
The figures below are the December 2025 estimates for the ten most populous administrative divisions; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration). - Wikipedia
The government launched what's known as the Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. - Wikipedia
The influence of Confucianism can be found in the behavior of Taiwanese people, known for their friendliness and politeness. - Wikipedia
The lifting of martial law ushered a period of democratization whereby Freedom of Speech and Expression led to a flourishing Taiwanese literature and mass media in Taiwan. - Wikipedia
The remainder live on the outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. - Wikipedia
Under United Nations criteria, Taiwan has become a super-aged society, with more than 20% of its population aged 65 or older. - Wikipedia
Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook