❌

Vista elenco

Ricevuto — 18 Maggio 2026 ⏭ Stampa Internazionale

Trump’s Taiwan comments: a blow to William Lai and ruling DPP?

✇Politics - South China Morning Post
di: Lawrence Chung · Lawrence Chung
18 Maggio 2026 ore 15:00
Donald Trump’s comment that he is “not looking to have somebody go independent” has sparked debate in Taiwan over whether it undermines the ruling party’s pro-independence platform. Trump made the remark after last week’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, where Taiwan emerged as one of the most sensitive issues in Sino-US relations. “I’m not looking to have somebody go independent,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News aired on Friday, adding that the United States was “9,500...

China arrests 16 in drone hacking cases, vowing ‘clean skies’ crackdown

✇Politics - South China Morning Post
di: Alcott Wei · Alcott Wei
18 Maggio 2026 ore 13:00
Chinese police have announced the arrests of 16 people suspected of hacking drone systems and vowed a nationwide crackdown on illegal drone use. China’s Ministry of Public Security released details on 10 cases on Monday to warn the public about illegal drone use. The suspects were arrested between January and March. It came as part of a nationwide “Clean Skies” campaign launched by the ministry in December to combat the illegal use of drones. The ministry said that in these cases, suspects used...

Why Beijing is outraged over Taiwan’s Lai honouring WWII-era Japanese engineer

✇Politics - South China Morning Post
di: Xinlu Liang · Xinlu Liang
18 Maggio 2026 ore 11:00
Beijing has strongly criticised Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te for paying tribute to a figure from Japan’s colonial era in Taiwan. In a commentary published on Sunday, Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily accused Lai, from Taiwan’s independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party, of “forgetting his ancestors” and reaching a new low in “ingratiating himself with Japan”. The denunciation followed Lai’s attendance at a memorial service on May 8 in the city of Tainan,...

Mainland China’s Wu Yongping on what the Xi-Trump summit means for Taiwan

✇Politics - South China Morning Post
di: Amber Wang · Amber Wang
18 Maggio 2026 ore 00:00
Wu Yongping is one of mainland China’s leading specialists on Taiwan affairs and dean of the Institute for Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Here, he shares his views on signals from the Xi-Trump summit, and discusses peaceful reunification between the mainland and Taiwan and how it could be achieved. How should we read President Xi Jinping’s message to Donald Trump on the Taiwan question during the summit and has anything changed? Xi said that if the Taiwan question is...

❌