Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers launch a drone during a military exercise outside a naval base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Jan. 29, 2026. (An Rong Xu/Bloomberg ...

The Lai administration immediately sought to align itself with the United States, while debate in Taiwan rages over what the strikes mean for cross-strait dynamics.

TAIPEI—Sgt. Lai Chung-yu had almost everything a Chinese spy recruiter could want in a Taiwanese asset. As a member of the military police battalion tasked with guarding the offices of the president ...