Washington’s increasing engagement with Taipei may push Beijing towards more aggressive action, according to analysts.
How a medical evacuation exposed Solomon Islands’ China challenge
Tensions are mounting after a prominent opponent of the country’s ‘One China’ policy was flown to Taiwan for treatment.
Taiwan Factories Shrug Off Covid as Exports Surge to Record
A Covid-19 outbreak, a drought and power outages did little to dent Taiwan’s runaway export growth in May as factories kept running at full capacity to keep up with demand from overseas.
China State Media Blasts U.S. Senators’ ‘Treacherous’ Visit to Taiwan
China Daily and Global Times’ harshest criticisms were of Washington and Taipei following Sunday’s high-profile stopover.
China denounces ‘vile provocation’ of U.S. senators in Taiwan
China’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday denounced a brief weekend visit by three U.S. senators to Chinese-claimed Taiwan on a U.S. military aircraft as a “vile political provocation”.
Taiwan mayor says too early to say if tech hub safe from COVID spike
It is still too early to say whether the major chip companies that operate in Taiwan’s tech hub of Hsinchu will be safe from the latest increase in COVID-19 infections, but the government is doing all …
Taiwan eyes LEO satellite business opportunity
With parts of government budgets and resources for space development to be given to companies in Taiwan’s ICT industry after the passing of Space Development Law, development of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) …
U.S., Taiwan to Launch Trade Talks
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a House committee of plans for trade and investment talks with Taiwan, an initiative likely to aggravate tensions with Beijing.
COVID outbreak at Taiwan factory may worsen chip shortage
A cluster of COVID-19 infections at a factory in central Taiwan temporarily stopped operations at one of the world’s largest chip-testing companies.
A victim of its own success: how Taiwan failed to plan for a major Covid outbreak
Once a poster child for blocking coronavirus, Taiwan failed to fully prepare a pandemic response or vaccination rollout …