Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced that he would impose additional tariffs on China if they invaded Taiwan, Reuters reported, citing the New York newspaper "Wall Street Journal.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced that he would impose additional tariffs on China if they invaded Taiwan, Reuters reported, citing the New York newspaper, the "Wall Street Journal.

The Chinese military criticized the US and Canada for “undermining peace and stability” by sending warships through the Taiwan Strait, just days after Beijing conducted major drills around the island.

Xinhua, the official news service, noted that instead of referring to China as the “the mainland”, which would suggest that China and Taiwan are one country, he referred to it as “China”, as if they were separate.

U.S. and Canadian warships sailed through the disputed Taiwan Strait on Sunday, almost a week after China held massive war games around Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory