Missile launchers on streets and tanks near a Costco aimed to bring home the threat of Chinese invasion, as exercises spilled ...

Taiwan is producing tens of thousands of its T112 — a new domestically produced combat rifle. TaiwanPlus Posted: October 9, 2024 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 ...

Taiwan is wary of increasing pressure from Beijing and this year it has beefed up its defence drills and is training citizens ...

A draft-dodging scandal allegedly involving a number of Taiwanese actors, influencers, and musicians has cast an unflattering spotlight on the conscript and reservist forces which could one day stand ...

Taiwan is increasing its minimum military service requirements for all capable male citizens amid rising tensions with the People's Republic of China. Taiwanese men of military age qualified for ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Taiwan is extending its mandatory military service requirement from four months to one year. The decision follows months of increasing tensions with China.

Taiwan is considering extending compulsory military service beyond four months, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday, as the war in Ukraine renewed discussion about how best to ...

Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to a year starting in 2024, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, as the self-ruled island faces China's military, diplomatic and ...

Taiwan's extended military service would affect conscripts born after 2006. Above, a Chinese military jet flies over Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, in Fujian ...

Taiwan will make an announcement on extending its four-month military conscription requirement by the end of this year, Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said, in the latest sign Taipei is taking a ...

Of Taiwan’s 188,000-person military, 90% are volunteers and 10% are men serving their currently required four months Published: Dec. 27, 2022 at 2:36 p.m. ET Share ...