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Joe Biden greets audience members during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H., July 13, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) During a campaign stop in Iowa on Thursday, former vice president Joe Biden touted China’s decision to sign the Paris Climate Accords as the Obama administration’s chief accomplishment with respect to the hostile ...

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday released a video promoting Taiwan as a tourism destination, after Beijing on Thursday last week revoked permission for independent Chinese travelers to visit Taiwan. The 42-second video presents a montage of notable places and famous buildings mostly in the greater Taipei area, as well ...

TAIPEI – China‘s decision last week to stop issuing permits for independent tourists to Taiwan applies new economic pressure to their already strained relations, and analysts see three underlying reasons behind Beijing‘s move.   Beijing’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism cited the “current mainland China-Taiwan relations” as cause to stop ...

Taiwanese authorities have rushed to dole out assurance and economic aid to travel agencies, hostels and malls catering to mainland Chinese tourists, after Beijing abruptly announced a moratorium on an individual visit scheme until after the island’s presidential election in January. China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Wednesday banned 47 ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday (Aug 1) criticised Beijing for making “a big strategic mistake” by halting individual travel to the island while her government relaxed rules on Chinese visits in a rebuke to the mainland. Relations between Beijing and Taipei have plummeted since Tsai of the Beijing-sceptic Democratic Progressive ...

BEIJING, China (3rd UPDATE) – China stepped up pressure on Taiwan on Wednesday, July 31, as it announced the suspension of individual travel permits to the self-ruled democratic island “due to current cross-strait relations”. Relations between Communist-ruled Beijing and Taipei have plummeted since President Tsai Ing-wen came to power in ...

BEIJING: China will stop issuing individual travel permits for Taiwan to people in 47 mainland cities from Aug 1, its culture and tourism ministry said on Wednesday (Jul 31), citing the state of ties with the self-ruled island, but gave no details. People from the mainland need permission to travel ...

HONG KONG: She is mild-mannered and soft-spoken in person. So it would be difficult to guess that Bonnie Leung is the same lady behind the biggest protests Hong Kong has ever witnessed. But when the government attempted to expand a bill to include extradition to China and Taiwan, the 32-year-old ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s faceless protest movement is embarking on a bold new strategy that poses a direct challenge to the city’s political masters in Beijing: activists want to export their “revolution” to mainland China. China‘s censors have gone into overdrive in the past month, blocking news of Hong Kong’s ...

TOKYO — On June 4, the Chinese government issued a travel warning to citizens visiting the U.S. Citing deteriorating public security and frequent incidents of robbery, theft and gun crime, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism warned travelers to take safety precautions. The same day, the Foreign Ministry also issued an ...