When Portuguese explorers first travelled past Taiwan on their way to Japan in 1544, they called it Ilha Formosa, or ‘beautiful island’, a moniker that it would be known by in the West.

As part of broader preparations for war, China is expanding and streamlining procedures for national defense mobilization – ...

When hearing “Taiwan,” people who have some awareness of the world will think of its focal role in US-China relations or ...

Imperial China possessed the island then known as Formosa, only to lose it in 1895 ... U.S. took territorial “concessions.” Today only Taiwan remains unredeemed. Another issue is security.

Two centuries later, the island was conquered by the Japanese ... “The U.S. has no predatory designs on Formosa [Taiwan], or on any other Chinese territory.” Taiwan did indeed become a ...

We believe that the more people understand Taiwan, the more they will fall in love with the “Beautiful Island” of Formosa. And even if you’re Taiwanese, there’s still plenty to learn about even in ...

After dinner, we had a quick stop at the Formosa Boulevard metro station ... We headed to Tainan, the first place we explored ...

Navy SEAL Team 6 has been planning and training for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for the past year, the Financial Times said.

Taiwan – llha Formosa (“the beautiful island”) to 16th-century Portuguese explorers – has everything you could want from an ...