The Central Broadcasting System was founded in 1928 as the voice of the Kuomintang (KMT) government quartered in Nanjing on mainland China.

After undergoing restructuring during the period 1996–98, CBS broadcast to mainland China and the rest of the world under the call sign Radio Taipei International and the Voice of Asia.

In 2002 the Voice of Asia call sign was dropped to leave Radio Taipei International as the sole broadcasting name for the service.

Radio Taiwan International broadcasts to the following countries and regions: Programming is carried in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, Cantonese, Hakka, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Spanish, German, French, Russian and recently Ukrainian (previously also in Arabic, Burmese, Mongolian and Tibetan).

Radio Taiwan broadcasts daily in Mandarin, Taiwanese (Minnan or Hokkien), Hakka, Cantonese, English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Korean.