Nearly half of the world's 5,400 container ships passed through the Taiwan Strait in 2022, according to a November 2023 report by the U.S. Naval Institute. 1 of 3 This map accessed on January 12 ...

China has long published maps including the island as part of its territory. The Taiwan Strait separating the two is only 81 miles wide at its narrowest, making it closer to the mainland than Cuba ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern coast of Taiwan on Wednesday ... U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...