Chronologies
China - Taiwan
Chronology from May 2024 to Dec 2024
: TSMC has informed both the Taiwan and US governments that it intends to begin producing 2-nanometer semiconductors in the US in 2028.
: Forty Chinese students arrive in Taiwan at the invitation of Former President Ma Ying-jeou.
: Former President Tsai says the US should prioritize assisting Ukraine during a speech in Halifax during her visit to Canada.
: TAO Director Song Tao meets Wang Jin-pyng, KMT politician and former head of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
: Taiwan’s investigative Control Yuan concludes that Taiwan’s Coast Guard was guilty of “severe lapses” that resulted in the death of two Chinese fishermen near Kinmen Island on February 14.
: US Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, and Department of State issue a joint letter to US state and local government officials, mayors, and Fortune 500 CEOs to invite them to strengthen trade and investment ties with Taiwan.
: TAO Director Song Tao tells media from China and Taiwan that they should advance Taiwan’s unification with China and “build a shared consensus that both sides are Chinese.”
: French frigate Prairial transits the Taiwan Strait.
: Lai commemorates the 1949 battle of Guningtou on Kinmen Island in which a PLA amphibious assault was repelled. He vows that the ROC “will not cede an inch of ground.”
: US and Canadian warships transit the Taiwan Strait.
: China’s Joint Sword 2024b exercise is brief, half a day, but intense with the largest
: China sanctions businessman Robert Tsao and DPP lawmaker Puma Shen for organizing the Kuma Academy, which helps Taiwanese learn how to respond to a natural disaster or a Chinese attack.
: Britain asks that a visit by Tsai be “deferred” to avoid angering China.
: Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing wen travels to the Czech Republic.
: Lai thanks veterans during a visit to the Taoyuan Veterans Home.
: In his first 10/10 National Day speech as president, Lai recalls that the ROC was built by idealists in China and Taiwan.
: Taiwan’s Whole of Society Defense Resilience Committee meets for the first time.
: Germany confirms that two of its naval vessels sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the first German ships to transit the Strait in 22 years.
: China resumes Taiwanese pomelo imports ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival in response to requests by Taiwan’s Nationalist (KMT) party officials.
: Taiwan President Lai urges China to reclaim land given to Russia by the Qing dynasty through an unequal treaty if it wants to claim Taiwan to secure territorial integrity.
: A mention of “Taiwan/Republic of China” is removed from the final communique of the annual Pacific Island Forum (PIF) meeting because of Chinese objections.
: Chinese sentences Taiwanese political activist Yang Chih-yuan to a nine-year prison term on charges of secession.
: Wang Yitai, a Chinese rapper, was denied entry into Taiwan for a concert after he used the term “Taipei, China” in his promotional materials.
: Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung and National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu travel to the Washington area for “special channel” talks.
: Premier Chotai Jung says that Taiwan is open to Chinese tourists, students, and religious practitioners.
: Taiwan and Japanese coast guards have conducted their first joint training.
: The Wall Street Journal warns: “The fall of Taiwan to the Communist Party would mark the end of America’s Pacific alliance system, which has produced 80 years of mostly peace.”
: Taiwan media report that a total of 120,000 reservists are expected to be called up for alternative reserve drills this year, compared with the 6,505 who drilled last year.
: China issues regulations implementing its 2005 Anti-Secession Law and imposing criminal punishments on “diehard Taiwan independence separatists.”
: Taiwan’s MAC says that at least eight Taiwanese retired military and police personnel have been detained in China in the past year and urged caution for all travelers with similar backgrounds.
: Taiwan Defense Minister Wellington Koo tells the Legislative Yuan that
: In an interview with The New York Times, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance says, “Our policy effectively is one of strategic ambiguity. “
: China terminates preferential tariffs on 134 items granted as part of the Economic Cross-Strait Framework Agreement (ECFA) saying that Lai had failed to acknowledge the “1992 Consensus.”
: China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) launches Joint Sword 2024a to “punish” Taiwan after Lai’s inauguration.
: China sanctions 12 US companies for arms sales to Taiwan, saying they come after US sanctions on Chinese companies for sales to Russia.
: Dr. Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as the fifth democratically elected president of the Republic of China. In his inaugural address, Lai calls on China to “face the reality of the Republic of China’s existence.” China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) says that Lai’s speech “incites confrontation.”
: US sources reveal that the US and Taiwan navies quietly held joint Pacific drills.
: Taiwanese TV and movie actor Wu Mu-hsuen was recently forced to sign a pledge to support China’s territorial claim on democratic Taiwan or see her Chinese hit show “Hey! Come a Bit Closer” be banned.