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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west - CIA World Factbook
• Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook