Imported fruits are one of the main characteristics of Carrefour (C4TW) that distinguish the store chain from other retailers in Taiwan. Mrs. Penny Chang is the manager of C4TW import ... ( read original story ...)
China says Taiwan pineapple ban not about politics as war of words escalates
China on Monday denied accusations by Taiwan that a ban on pineapples from the island was about politics, saying it was purely a matter of biosecurity, in an escalating war of words that has added to ... ( read original story ...)
China’s ban on Taiwanese pineapples sours sentiment towards Beijing and stokes self-reliance
Taiwan has started a self-preservation campaign to counter ... Prominent retailers, including PX Mart, I-MEI Foods, Largan Precision which supplies smartphone camera lenses to Apple Inc., and online ... ( read original story ...)
China’s ban on Taiwanese pineapples leads cross-strait trade into troubled waters
Beijing's decision to ban pineapple imports from Taiwan has started a new war of words across the Taiwan Strait, a development that could have huge implications. Chinese customs cited a technicality ... ( read original story ...)
Global Chip Shortage: Qualcomm’s supply for smartphones from Realme & Xiaomi affected
The world is currently experiencing one of the worst shortages of semiconductors. Various industries ranging from the smartphone to even the automobile market has been affected by it, And now, senior ... ( read original story ...)
Can the United States Prevent a War over Taiwan?
Taiwan is becoming the most dangerous flashpoint in the world. Events in and involving the small democracy could spark a war that draws in the United ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan drive to plug global chip shortage
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s drive to plug a global shortage of microchips has hit a snag - a lack of water for its foundries caused by a drought. Taiwanese high-tech chip foundries are some of the world’s ... ( read original story ...)
China, the U.S. and Taiwan
China’s claims to the breakaway island province of Taiwan have become so strident, so carefully menacing, that the danger of China attempting to wrest it by force of arms, daring the U.S. to come ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing could be preparing for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan: Report
Gray zone conflicts are activities by a state that are harmful to another state and are sometimes considered to be acts of war, but are not legally acts of war. ( read original story ...)
Tsai’s leadership makes its mark in Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan, was recently selected by Time magazine to be one of the 100 most influential people of 2020 because of her administration's measures to contain the ... ( read original story ...)
China’s ‘gray zone’ warfare against Taiwan at highest level
China gray zone warfare against Taiwan is now at the highest level which could mean that Beijing is preparing for a full-scale invasion Focus Taiwan repor ... ( read original story ...)
China to step up global influence campaign
Facing disapproval around the world over a slew of issues including Xinjiang Hong Kong coronavirus handling and Indo-Pacific Beijing is expected to step up i ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: The economy is at a turning point
Moody’s Investors Service last week affirmed Taiwan’s sovereign credit rating of “Aa3” and changed its credit outlook for the nation to “positive” from “stable,” which is not only a first since the ... ( read original story ...)
Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: It’s simple: Either we arm Taiwan or die trying
When Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) wakes up one morning and decides that his People’s Liberation Army (PLA) can win a war to conquer Taiwan, that is when his war will begin. To ... ( read original story ...)
Notes from central Taiwan: Some ‘damn foolish thing’ in the Senkakus
The ante was upped this month in the uninhabited islands by Beijing and Tokyo. Otto von Bismarck once famously remarked that the “great European war will come out of some damn foolish thing in the ... ( read original story ...)
Aborigines target of China’s ‘united front’: legislators
Lawmakers have called on the National Security Bureau to investigate claims of pervasive Chinese influence among Aboriginal communities. Legislators pointed to a surge in communist propaganda and ... ( read original story ...)