House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is slated to meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California instead of Taipei in an effort to avoid acts of aggression from China, the Financial Times ...
Financial firms reduce exposure
Taiwanese financial holding companies reduced their overall overseas exposure to NT$25.13 trillion (US$821.9 billion) in the fourth quarter of last year, the latest data compiled by the Financial ...
Taiwan February exports seen down 14%, inflation to ease
TAIPEI: Taiwan's exports likely dropped 14 per cent in February, according to the median forecast of 21 analysts polled by Reuters, smaller than the 21.2 per cent annual slide in January. The export ...
Machine tool show opens in Taipei
The Taipei International Machine Tool Show (TIMTOS) opened yesterday, with more than 1,000 local and international exhibitors showcasing their products. It is to run through Saturday at the Taipei ...
Average housing costs top NT$10m in major locales
Average home prices last quarter topped NT$10 million (US$327,054) in Taiwan’s major cities, despite a slowdown in transactions amid economic uncertainty, Sinyi Realty Inc (信) ...
Kevin McCarthy to meet Taiwan’s president in US to avoid China’s ire
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen plan to meet in California rather than Taipei in a bid to avoid an aggressive response from Beijing to a meeting on the island. McCarthy,
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to hire 6,000 engineers in 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co will hire an additional 6000 engineers in 2023 according to company officials ...
US predicts date that China will invade Taiwan
Beijing sent 25 fighter jets and three warships to the Taiwanese island in recent days, said to be with the aim of intimidating the Taiwanese Navy.
China’s Ukraine Peace Plan Is Actually About Taiwan
Analysis: China’s Ukraine Peace Plan Is Actually About Taiwan Create an FP account to save articles to read later and in the FP mobile app. Sign Up ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN Understanding the conflict one year on.
Taiwan Watches for Sudden Moves As China Raises Defense Spending
China's military is looking for reasons to push the envelope with closer operations off Taiwan, the island's defense chief said.
Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under its own name, not “Chinese Taipei”, as most de facto embassies are called. An infuriated China shut the Lithuanian embassy in ...
Taiwan’s dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
The semiconductor industry is called Taiwan’s “silicon shield”, giving the world a big reason to defend the island. Yet chips are the industry most affected by the split between America and China.
First Taiwan presidential contender to visit U.S. next month
The head of a small Taiwanese political party will next month become the first contender for 2024's presidential election to visit the United States, to brief officials on his policies should he win office,
Jakarta communicates with representatives in Japan, Taiwan on ‘missing’ Indonesian sailors
The Foreign Ministry said on Monday it was coordinating with the embassy in Japan and the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office (KDEI) in Taipei after six Indonesian crewmembers reportedly went missing after their boat capsized in the disputed Senkaku Islands,
Taiwan defence officials grilled as troops ask ‘Where’s the beef?’
The military comes under fire for not providing meat supplies to a remote island after soldiers there sent an 'SOS' Opposition lawmakers slam government over supply blunder, excuses Taiwan's defence chief has apologised for failing to ensure supplies of meat for frontline soldiers stationed on the Matsu Islands - where Taipei has garrisoned troops to ...
The Prospects for a Recalibration of China’s Taiwan Policy
With eyes toward Taiwan’s next presidential election in January 2024, China appears poised to adjust its Taiwan policy, especially if the KMT is victorious.