China's anti-satellite test in January increased the country's military threat to Taiwan by demonstrating a limited ability to blind the U.S. satellites that would be deployed in defense of the island, according to a report from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Secret new U. S. intelligence about China proves the Chinese are accelerating the test of new medium and long range ballistic missiles which could affect Taiwan and U. S. strategy toward China, especially if it were ever to attack Taiwan.

The computer systems at Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the de facto U.S. embassy here, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), were maliciously attacked by hackers believed to be operating from China, an AIT source said.

China is preparing for nuclear war with the United States over Taiwan, and a conflict is likely in the near future because of divisions among Beijing's leaders, a Chinese democracy activist says.

China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, according to a senior Chinese military official.

The U.N. nuclear-watchdog agency has found that Taiwan's experiments with plutonium extended up to the mid-1980s, diplomats said yesterday, uncovering a key detail about the country's now-abandoned nuclear-weapons program.

Chinese officials are watching closely a Taiwanese remote sensing satellite that they feel could be used for military purposes.

The next US president will find that one of his re-occupations will be China and Taiwan - and how to stop their war of words from becoming a full-blown conflict. The latest verbal exchange between Beijing and Taipei raises a potentially new danger - that of Taiwan acquiring an offensive missile capability.

The author warns that the arms race between China & Taiwan could soon get out of control and expand to include not only conventional weapons but also space-based systems and nuclear missiles, if not defenses against those missiles."

The author argues that China's space program will greatly improve the chances of success for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. He proposes that Taiwan defend their independence from Chinese space power through passive defense: "deception, hardening, redundancy, and dispersal of military assets".