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Project planning is unilateral, undertaken without the participation of Taiwan, which the People's Republic of China claims, but has never controlled. The Pingtan–Taipei portion of the railway headed to Taiwan is referred as "possible long-term future expansions" in construction documents of Fuzhou–Pingtan section. [2]
On 10 May 2023, a construction crane fell 30 floors from a construction site of Highwealth Construction Corp onto a moving Taichung Metro Green Line train south of Feng-le Park metro station, Taichung, Taiwan, killing 1 and injuring 10 passengers onboard.
On 2 April 2021, at 09:28 NST (01:28 UTC), a Taroko Express train operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) derailed at the north entrance of Qingshui Tunnel in Heren Section, Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan, killing 49 people and injuring at least two others, making it the deadliest railway accident in Taiwan in terms of confirmed deaths.
China is readying forces that could seize Taiwan in a future attack, analysts and officials say. Any military operation is likely to rely partly on China's militarized police. The People's Armed ...
Taiwan aims to train 50,000 volunteers for emergencies amid China's military drills. Taiwan's Presidential Office held its first-ever tabletop war games on Thursday in a sign of heightened ...
For four days this week, Taiwan went on alert in response to what it said was China's largest massing of naval forces in three decades around Taiwan and in the East and South China Seas.
At least 18 people were killed in the accident, with another 187 injured, all on board. [3]Six of the dead were reportedly under the age of 18. [17] Taiwan's Railway Authority confirmed that eight of the dead were of the same family, and the Health Ministry confirmed that 53 injured passengers remained in the hospital.
In addition, Taiwan is much concerned about the tunnel's potential use by China in military actions. [1] Nonetheless, in July 2013, the Chinese State Council approved plans for the project. [6] As the relation between Taiwan and China worsens, the proposal has been mocked in Taiwan, along with the Beijing–Taipei high-speed rail corridor [7].