The United States and Japan launched their first coordinated currency intervention in 15 years on August 4, 2026, pushing the yen up roughly 4% against the dollar — but markets and......
A coordinated US-Japan currency intervention sent the yen surging on August 3, with President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both confirming the joint action pub......
China's ruling Communist Party confirmed on July 31 that it will convene the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee in October, placing an unusually explicit focus on ......
When the American Institute in Taiwan posted a photograph on July 28 showing US and Taiwan coast guard vessels sailing in formation, supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive......
As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
Richard Koo (辜朝明), chief economist at Nomura Research Institute (野村總合研究所) in Japan, has argued that the current crisis involving Iran and the United States was largely set in motio......
As the United States marked 250 years of independence on July 4, Chinese state media and social platforms devoted unusual attention to the milestone, even as Washington, Brussels a......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation on June 22, stepping down as both prime minister and Labour Party leader just two years after leading the party to a h......
China on Monday, June 22, barred government agencies from buying products made by 46 designated American companies while placing 10 more on a strict export control list, marking t......
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......
Kevin Warsh chairs his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week under conditions that would test any central banker — and that will test him in ways his predecessor ne......
Kuomintang(KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) came to New York prepared for a fight — and she got one.On the evening of June 8 (Eastern Time), Cheng appeared at the Asia Society's ......
A four-month conflict that has killed thousands and severed one-fifth of global energy transit came to a turning point in the early hours of Monday, June 15, when US Presiden......
An Apache crash in the Strait of Hormuz has put a number on a brutal reality — U.S. air power is hemorrhaging assets at a rate not seen since Vietnam, and the bill is already $29 b......
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated in an interview that Chinese President Xi Jinping's preferred cross-strait scenario would be achieved through some form of unifi......
In the volatile theater of major-power politics, the international community has spent the days following last week's high-stakes Trump–Xi summit in Beijing dissecting every diplom......
When U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly accuses Taiwan of "stealing" America's semiconductor industry, the appropriate response from Taipei is clear rebuttal. Instead, Premier ......
Donald Trump's assertion that Taiwan took America's semiconductor industry has become a fixture of his trade rhetoric. A detailed counter-argument published this week by a veteran ......
A $14 billion U.S. arms sale package to Taiwan has been suspended in the wake of President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing — a development that a......
When Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 15, neither government's official readout mentioned Taiwan's arms purchases. Trump himself, however, was considerably l......
The Trump administration has suspended a proposed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, one of the largest defense packages considered for the island, after the Pentagon and White House......
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Chinese capital just days after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his own visit, in a sequence of high-profile summits that unde......
Taipei officials acknowledge Trump's remarks and thank Washington for its concern over cross-strait stability; the Presidential Office says more details will be released as develop......
As President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) marks the second anniversary of his inauguration, he finds himself hemmed in on every side — by a transactional Washington, a closed-off Beijing, a ......
Taiwan's Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said Monday he remained "cautiously optimistic" that arms transfers from Washington would continue, seeking to project ca......
When U.S. President Donald Trump said after his meeting with Xi Jinping that he did not want to see anyone "move toward independence," the remark drew immediate international atten......
The most consequential moment of Donald Trump's China visit did not happen in the room with Xi Jinping. During the roughly 30 hours Trump spent in Beijing, the Chinese leader warne......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi confirmed on the evening of May 15 that U.S. President Donald Trump called her directly from Air Force One shortly after departing China, off......
While attending a state banquet in Beijing as part of President Trump's delegation, Elon Musk typed a few words in Chinese on a platform the Chinese government bans its own citizen......
China's state media outlet People's Daily published a lengthy strategic commentary on May 13 that marks a notable departure in how Beijing publicly frames its relationship with Was......
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing on Wednesday, sitting down for what is expected to be a wide-ranging and high-stakes dialogue on some of......
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday morning for a high-profile summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first such meet......
Former European Commission president calls for a stronger European defense pillar within NATO — and says the war in Ukraine is the wake-up call the continent can no longer ignoreWh......
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to China since beginning his second term — and the first formal visit by a sitting U.S. president to China in nearly nine......
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry has elevated two previously marginal internal units to central roles in its diplomatic operations, signaling a structural shift away from values-based dip......
One of Beijing's most powerful ideologues used a high-profile cultural gathering this week to project a notably conciliatory posture on Taiwan — just days before U.S. President Don......
When a U.S. court invalidated the legal basis for President Donald Trump's universal 10% import tariff last Thursday, most affected economies had reason to exhale. Taiwan did not. ......
The world's first documented maritime hantavirus outbreak has left three people dead aboard the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, making it the deadliest recorded at-sea tra......
Two months into the U.S.-Iran war, a ceasefire that President Trump declared indefinite has held — for now. Negotiations have lurched on and off, and reports emerged this week that......
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Beijing on May 6, offering some of China's most pointed criticism of the US-Israel conflict with......
If one wanted to study authentic British royal English at its most refined, there is no better source than the monarch himself. Charles III's address to Congress was long, widely p......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
How Beijing's Anti-Independence Drive Shapes Cross-Strait TensionsA high-profile meeting between Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) and Kuomintang (KMT) Ch......
When TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei (魏哲家) stood beside President Donald Trump at the White House in March 2025 to announce an additional $100 billion U.S. investment commitment, the moment......
Jason Hsu (許毓仁) has a talent for arriving early to uncomfortable truths.In 2016, during his first term as a Kuomintang proportional-representation legislator, he co-sponsored a sam......
With less than 48 hours before a US-Iran ceasefire was set to expire, the Pentagon confirmed on April 19 that US forces had opened fire on an Iranian cargo vessel attempting to bre......
The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released the 2026 Economic Report of the President, which centers on the policy roadmap and projected outcomes of the One Big Beaut......
Less than two hours before his own ultimatum expired, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a two-week pause on military strikes against Iran — adding yet another "TACO" moment to ......
