In Hualien, near the quake's epicenter, workers utilized an excavator to fortify the base of a damaged building with construction materials, averting a potential collapse.
In a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials, Xi told Biden that China's preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said
Wang, a longtime advisor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was put in charge of Taiwan affairs earlier this year after he was appointed as the deputy head of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs
Philippine officials strongly condemned the installation last week of a 300-metre (980-foot)-long barrier by Chinese coast guard vessels at the entrance to the lagoon of Scarborough Shoal
China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has conducted increasingly large military drills in the air and waters around Taiwan as tensions have grown between the two and with the United States
According to Al Jazeera, Taiwan's defence ministry added that some were detected entering the unspecified area of the western Pacific to conduct joint sea and air training with the Shandong aircraft carrier
USS Ralph Johnson and the Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate HMCS Ottawa sailed through the narrow band of ocean that separates China and self-ruled Taiwan, according to the US Navy's 7th Fleet