Palau is one of just 12 countries that has official diplomatic ties with Taiwan. The country's president, Surangel Whipps Jr.

Now, as Mr Whipps stands for re-election on Nov 5, China is again ratcheting up a campaign of economic and diplomatic ...

China warned on Thursday that the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party authorities' attempt to seek "Taiwan independence" will ...

The agreement comes as both the U.S. and China are seeking to expand their influence in the Pacific and follows pleas from Palau’s president for Washington’s help to deter Beijing’s ...

Members of a Taiwanese delegation who were in Palau to attend the inauguration of Palauan President Surangel Whipps Jr and ...

including a missile test facility in the Marshall Islands and a high-frequency radar system being built in Palau. The ...

Now, Palau and other Pacific islands are forced to serve as a stage for the struggle for supremacy yet again. China has signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, while the United States is ...

Taiwan's largest coast guard patrol ship took part in a joint rescue drill in Palau on Friday, as visiting President Lai Ching-te fortifies ties in the Pacific where China has been poaching its ...

In the past year the Chinese Embassy in the Federated States of Micronesia has issued several safety advisories for Chinese citizens traveling to Palau, with which China does not have diplomatic ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Friday he was "confident" of deeper cooperation with the next Donald Trump administration, a day after his call with US Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

China has ramped up efforts to poach Taiwan’s Pacific Island allies. So far, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Nauru have ...

The so-called “compacts of free association” with Palau and the Marshall Islands ... them from Imperial Japan in World War II, but China has been working hard to win influence among them.