A Chinese invasion of Taiwan: Too costly to countenance?
"Beijing insists now-democratically run Taiwan is part of its territory, and that it will one day re-take it, by force ...
Read moreTag: Penghu islands
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.