The bipartisan group of legislators from the US House of Representatives, who arrived in the self-governing island on Thursday, held talks with President Tsai Ing-wen and other senior officials.

The top diplomats from China and the United States have exchanged stern warnings over Washington’s support for pro-independence forces in Chinese Taipei ahead of Monday's summit between their leaders.

China expresses strong dissatisfaction with a plan by Chinese Taipei's foreign minister Joseph Wu to visit Europe and make a virtual address to a forum in Rome next week.

China has flown 25 fighter jets over Taipei’s airspace after Britain sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait in a move aimed at challenging Beijing's claim to the strategic waterway.

Beijing holds military assault drills near Chinese Taipei, in what its armed forces described as a show of force against “provocations” and “external interference” in the mainland’s affairs.

China calls on Lithuania to withdraw its ambassador from Beijing and says it would recall its own envoy to the Lithuanian capital in protest at the Baltic state’s decision to allow Chinese Taipei to open a de facto embassy in Vilnius.

Washington has already sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to the self-ruled Island.

China says US Senators’ visit to Chinese Taipei will embolden separatist forces in the self-ruled island.

China says the United States threatens the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, shortly after the US military sent yet another warship to the sensitive waterway.

Biden hosted the Japanese premier at the White House on Friday, in what was his first meeting with a foreign leader since assuming office earlier this year.