China's push for technological self-reliance has crossed a threshold. What began as an industrial upgrading ambition has become something more fundamental: a national security proj......
When Donald Trump raises the tariff banner, many observers instinctively reach for familiar frameworks — protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor economics, the ghost of Smoot-Hawley. Th......
When police raided several cosmetic clinics in Taiwan — including branches of the Airlee Medical Aesthetics (愛爾麗) — for installing undisclosed surveillance systems inside treatment......
For decades, Taiwan's approach to attracting corporate investment has followed a deceptively simple formula: offer tax breaks, and companies will come. Investment credits, tax holi......
China's Humanoid Robot Marathon: What a Race Reveals About an Industrial Strategy A humanoid robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in under 51 minutes — a figure that, on pape......
The logic of globalization was once to maximize efficiency. The logic of competition today is to minimize risk. As supply chains shift from "lowest cost" to "most reliable," the na......
For more than a decade, Asia served as the world's most reliable economic growth engine. That dominant narrative is now rapidly failing as the region fragments and old economic mod......
When blockchain technology first entered the global conversation 15 years ago, it meant one thing: cryptocurrency.Bitcoin, launched in 2009, was designed as an electronic payment s......
In an era defined by U.S.-China tech rivalries, Taiwan's dominance in advanced chipmaking has turned it into a geopolitical linchpin. Companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur......
While public discourse on artificial intelligence has long been dominated by debates over model sizes, deployment costs, and generation quality, analysts warn that society is overl......
When Taiwan's financial industry discusses AI, most conversations remain confined to "implementing tools and enhancing efficiency," treating AI as mere assistance and hoping it wil......
