Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne takeover of Taiwan, according to a UK-based defense forum.

Russia is using its battlefield experience to give Chinese airborne units the training and technical knowhow to carry out lightning-fast operations.

Leaked Russian documents analysed by a leading UK think thank suggest Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help it prepare an airborne invasion of Taiwan.

Dassault CEO Eric Trappier says Taiwan wants Rafale as Mirage 2000 support declines, but any sale is up to France.

Taiwan is seeking to double its exports of chips and electronics to India over the next five to seven years as smartphone shipments from the country ramp up thanks to demand from the U.S., the head of the island's main trade body said.

The breaching of a barrier lake – formed after landslides triggered by another typhoon blocked rivers in a remote mountain valley in July – is the main cause of extensive damage in the eastern county of Hualien, said Huang Chao Chin, the deputy commander of Taiwan's Central Emergency Operation Centre.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued Wednesday the year's third "withhold release" order this time to detain bicycle parts from a Taiwan company over accusations of forced labor at its Asian factory.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM) stock trended on Wednesday following reports that the contract chipmaker plans to break ground on a new 1.4-nanometer fabrication plant in Taichung next quarter.

A Taiwan court has convicted a former presidential aide of spying for China and three others who were also employed by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). One of the men worked in the office of then Foreign Minister Joseph Wu who now serves as the national security chief.