Over Taiwan’s Qingming holiday weekend, as families cleaned ancestral graves and crowded around dinner tables, a familiar debate has resurfaced: should this island democracy rely more heavily on the United States for its security or try to reduce tensions by engaging with China?

Defending Taiwan’s sovereignty and denouncing Chinese aggression has long been a priority for the Utah senator — and a personal one.

China's efforts to infiltrate Taiwan are now more structured, targeting lower-ranking military personnel, says Taiwan's security chief. Beijing is also using airspace reservations to monitor US activity and apply 'grey zone' pressure on Taipei.

Bank accounts in Singapore, apartments in Thailand, passports from the Caribbean – Taiwanese are making back-up plans in case China invades.

China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its advanced chip manufacturing technology and talent as a way of breaking through international "containment" of the country, according

Taiwan is moving to harden one of its loneliest outposts, announcing Thursday that it will beef up defenses on the Pratas Islands, a remote atoll Taipei controls in the northern South China Sea, after a rise in Chinese maritime and aerial activity.