BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Monday it stands ready to work with the greatest effort for peaceful "reunification" with Taiwan, its foreign ministry said on Monday, responding to interview comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Beijing issued a firm warning on Monday, asserting it will “never allow anyone or any force to separate” Taiwan from China, intensifying its long-sta

President Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping told him he wouldn’t make a move on Taiwan while Trump is in office. “I said, ‘Well, I appreciate that.’ But he also said, ‘But I am very patient, and China is very patient.

JONATHAN A. CZIN is the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies and a Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He is a former member of the Senior Analytic Service at the CIA and was Director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 until 2023.

At his office in Taipei, Wu Chih-chung pulls out a small stack of papers titled Xi Jinping’s Gradual Move Toward Personal Dictatorship.

THIS secretive Chinese special forces unit could play a key role in dictator Xi Jinping’s plot to seize Taiwan. Ever since Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the world has