The commission accounts for the business climate monitor when adjusting its policy, but local companies have operated securely, with combined revenues growing about 10 percent year-on-year for the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s GDP growth beats expectations in third quarter, but mainland China lockdowns and Western smartphone fatigue cloud outlook
The mainland relies on Taiwan for "strategic" components such as semiconductor products, said Hu Jin-li, a professor at the Institute of Business and Management of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung ... ( read original story ...)
Business monitor indicates shift toward a ‘recession’
The monitor has not had a “yellow-blue” reading since July 2020, it said. “It is hard to tell whether the monitor would turn blue or improve this month, as many subindices are hovering around the ... ( read original story ...)
Make Taiwan ‘indespensable,’ but do not provoke China, US pundit says
Taiwan should make itself “indispensable” for the global economy and refrain from provoking China, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman told a business forum in Taipei yesterday. Friedman, ... ( read original story ...)
Business confidence slumps due to high inflation
Local business confidence last month weakened across all sectors, as high inflation at home and abroad slowed inventory digestion and consumer spending, the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Semiconductor’s Numero Uno Position Hit This Crucial Roadblock, Could Lead To Samsung Scoring Big Customers
CEO CC Wei winced when his presentation at its recent tech symposium reflected its underperformance. Wei's presentation showed that further miniaturization of the chip to create circuits around 4 ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Prez Tsai says no backing down to aggressive threats from China
Taiwan won't back down in the face of aggressive threats from China, the president of the self-governing island democracy Tsai Ing-wen said ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan needs to diversify away from China: minister
He added that one of Taiwan’s goals is to “try to diversify our trade partners, our trade market, so that we are not going to put all our eggs in one basket.” Taiwan’s trade has been pressured this ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s foreign investment surges with ‘no short-term issues’, but China clouds outlook
Approved foreign investment into Taiwan grew by 152 per cent over the first three quarters of the year, but Nancy Pelosi’s earlier visit and Xi Jinping’s latest call for reunification cloud the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Needs to Diversify Trade Amid US-China Row: Finance Chief
Taiwan needs to diversify is trade away from China, the island’s finance minister said, citing uncertainties created by Covid Zero and rising geopolitical tensions between Washington and Beijing. ( read original story ...)
China Says Don’t Interfere as U.S. Navy Warns Taiwan War Could Be This Year
"The U.S. needs to be fully aware of the extreme importance and highly sensitive nature of the Taiwan question," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Billionaire Rudy Ma, Founder Of Yuanta Financial Holdings, Dies At 82
Rudy Ma, the founder of financial services company Yuanta Financial Holdings, died Tuesday evening at age 82. Ma, who had been battling Alzheimer’s for some years, was ranked No. 15 on the list of ... ( read original story ...)
If Xi Jinping attacks Taiwan, he will be a ‘sinner’ of the Chinese people: Taiwan’s top intelligence officer
Chinese President Xi Jinping would become a "sinner" of the Chinese people if he chooses to launch an attack on Taiwan, Mirror Media reported a Taiwanese official as saying. Taiwan's top intelligence ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s export orders fall in September as economic distress in mainland China intensifies
Taiwan's export orders totalled US$60.93 billion in September, down by 3.1 per cent year on year, but up 11.6 per cent on August Orders from Taiwan's biggest buyer, mainland China, reached US$11.55 ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan and U.S. tensions with China pose ‘serious’ challenges for chip industry – TSMC
By Sarah Wu. HSINCHU, Taiwan – Rising Taiwan-China and U.S.-China tensions have brought “more serious” challenges for the semiconductor industry, the chairman of Taiwanese c ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan signals US trade talks breakthrough, hopeful of ‘early harvest’ amid China tensions
Talks over the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade began in August, and the two sides have ‘been talking to each other steadily’, according to Hsiao Chen-jung, executive secretary of Taipei’s ... ( read original story ...)