Taiwan Flags Huge Cost of China's Military Parade in Growing War of Words

Former KMT chair, Want Want manager among Taiwanese set to attend Beijing parade

A small Taiwanese delegation of politicians and business leaders – including former Kuomintang chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu – will be attending Beijing’s World War II Victory Parade on Wednesday, despite warnings from the ruling party in Taipei. Hung announced via social media on Tuesday that she arrived in the mainland capital the previous night and would be present at the parade. “Today, we are able to attend together and take part in commemoratin…

Taiwan's Lai seeks stronger defenses as China commemorates victory over Japan

Peace is achieved through 'resolve to resist aggression and strength to defend ourselves,' Taiwan's leader tells soldiers - Anadolu Ajansı

Bob Carr, China's big parade, and Australia’s inconvenient WWII history

Australian media were quite rightly interested in Bob Carr's attendance at a huge parade in China. But they missed the real point.

Ahead of China’s War Parade, Taiwan President Says Aggression Will Fail

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that aggression will inevitably fail, pointing - on the day before a mass military parade in Beijing - to the lessons from World War Two and key victories Taiwan claims against Chinese forces in 1958. Democratically governed Taiwan has over the past five years repeatedly complained about heightened Chinese military activity including war games around the island as Beijing steps up pressure to enforce…