Two women became the first military officers to marry their same-sex civilian partners at a mass military wedding in Taiwan on Friday, marking another landmark for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia.

Over 10 days, the island's troops will combine conventional war games with massive evacuation drills. Taiwan began conducting large-scale annual military exercises on land, sea, and air in 1984.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, about how Beijing will view Taiwan's large-scale military drills. That's the view from Taiwan, but what about ...

Taiwan began preparations this week for its annual Han Kuang military exercise in response to what its government describes as escalating military pressure from China. The war games—scheduled to last ...