Taiwan detained a Chinese-crewed cargo ship after a subsea telecoms cable was severed off the island, the coast guard said.

The State Department removed previous wording on its website about not supporting Taiwan independence, which it said was part of a routine update.

A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced a resolution reaffirming American support for Taiwan, condemning China's "weaponization" of UN Resolution 2758 to manipulate history and marginalize Taiwan.

China on Monday fumed at the Trump administration after the State Department scrubbed a line on its website that said US policy does “not support Taiwan independence.”

The State Department told local media the revision was a routine update, not a policy change. But it provoked anger from Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory.

The Taiwan Strait does not belong to China and any attempts to create tension threaten global security, the island's defence ministry said on Monday, after Beijing criticised Canada for sailing a warship through the sensitive waterway.

Taiwan is waiting for an estimated $21 billion in backlogged U.S. weapons—much of it ordered during Trump's first term.

China has responded angrily after the US appeared to quietly alter its stance on Taiwan during an update to the State Department website. A change to the department’s fact sheet on Taiwan last week saw the phrase “we do not support Taiwan independence” removed from the document, among other minor tweaks.

Chinese hackers breached the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) internal communications in July last year to discover how the party was planning to address Taiwan, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The RNC had previously called for a free-trade agreement with Taiwan in its 60-page platform from 2016.

The Ministry of Education is looking to discuss the possibility of inviting Chinese students to pursue their studies in Taiwan, however, there has been no reply from Beijing, Taipei Times reported citing Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng statement.

China has been perhaps the biggest beneficiary of cheaper Russian energy in recent years, meaning a U-turn on Russian oil and gas sanctions could shake up global markets or at the very least offer the Kremlin more leverage. That Putin will share Trump's transactional view of geopolitics may be a gamble, but the overtures will give Beijing pause.