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Assassination of Shinzo Abe. Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station, several hours after the shooting. Location. near Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Coordinates. 34°41′38.6″N 135°47′02.2″E. / 34.694056°N 135.783944°E / 34.694056; 135.783944. Date.
The March 19 shooting incident ( Chinese: 三一九槍擊事件 ), also known as the 319 incident, was an assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu while they were campaigning in Tainan, Taiwan on 19 March 2004, the day before Taiwan 's presidential election. Their injuries were not life-threatening, and ...
Two years after the February 28 incident, the KMT retreated from mainland China to Taiwan during the closing stages of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Wanting to consolidate its rule on its remaining territories, the KMT imposed harsh political suppression measures, which included enacting martial law , executing suspected leftists or those they ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan has lodged a protest against the Chinese ambassador's "extremely inappropriate" comments about Taiwan, chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Wednesday. Wu ...
Arpan Rai. May 24, 2024 at 8:51 AM. A Taiwanese Air Force F-16 fighter jet taxis after landing at an air force base in Hualien in eastern Taiwan (AFP via Getty Images) Tensions between China and ...
The February 28 incident (also called the February 28 massacre, [ 3][ 4] the 228 incident, [ 5] or the 228 massacre) [ 5] was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan in 1947 that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang –led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC). Directed by provincial governor Chen Yi and president Chiang Kai ...
Post-1979, the U.S. relationship with Taiwan has been governed by the Taiwan Relations Act, which gives a legal basis to provide the Chinese-claimed island with the means to defend itself, but ...
Taiwan reportedly spotted 70 aircraft and 11 ships from China. On the first day of the military exercises, one of the Chinese vessels discharged a shot while sailing near Pingtan Island – the nearest point between China and Taiwan. [147] Taiwan's prosecutions of Chinese espionage cases spiked in 2023, reaching 16 throughout the year.