China has warned the United States will pay an “unbearable cost” due its actions over Taiwan, saying by encouraging Taiwanese secessionist forces, Washington puts the self-ruled island in a perilous situation.

China has rejected concerns over the safety of Lithuanian diplomats in the Asian country, weeks after Beijing downgraded relations with Lithuania in protest at the Baltic state’s decision to allow Chinese Taipei to open a de facto embassy in Vilnius.

Nicaragua resumes diplomatic ties with China after breaking relations with US-backed island territory of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan).

A Pentagon official says boosting Chinese Taipei’s military is an “urgent task” and crucial to deterring what the United States perceives as the threat of invasion by China.

Washington has announced plans for new military facilities over what it calls the threat from China..

The bipartisan group of legislators from the US House of Representatives, who arrived in the self-governing island on Thursday, held talks with President Tsai Ing-wen and other senior officials.

China renews warnings to the United States over Taiwan and says it has no room for compromise over the island, and Washington should not have any illusions about this.