The multi-billion dollar deal has angered Beijing, which considers Taiwan to be its province.
Despite not maintaining formal diplomatic ties with the island nation, the US continues to be its primary supplier of arms.
The State Department is proposing the sale of $2.2 billion in arms to Taiwan, including 108 Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger surface-to-air missiles. Beijing demanded immediate cancellation of the proposed sale.
Violence broke out again on Sunday night after a huge march in front of a train station which links Hong Kong to mainland China.
The sustainability of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Mediterranean will depend on whether China can help defuse tensions in the Mediterranean while respecting each country's domestic concerns.
Turkey's President Erdogan met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss stronger bilateral relations.
Hundreds of thousands of residents have poured out on to the streets to oppose a controversial extradition law with China.
The origins of the attacks in the Gulf of Oman remain a mystery, but the message behind the attack is as clear as day.
Lee Chong Wei, 36-year-old three-time Olympic silver medallist and a father of two, was diagnosed with early-stage nose cancer last year.
Hundreds of thousands protest new laws that allow the extradition of convicts to other Chinese territories.
The city's pro-Beijing leaders are pushing a bill through the legislature that would allow extraditions to any jurisdiction with which it does not already have a treaty — including mainland China for the first time.
Taiwan said on Monday China should "sincerely repent" over bloody crackdown of pro-democracy protesters three decades ago.
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