Global semiconductor equipment spending is on course to nearly double within two years, and countries from Catalonia to Chihuahua are converging on Taiwan to get a seat at the tabl......
"Battle of Penghu" (澎湖海戰), a major Chinese historical war epic timed to Beijing's pro-unification messaging, has reportedly been denied an official release permit days before its s......
Less than two weeks after former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen wrapped up a Rome visit in late June, Italy's Senate passed a piece of legislation that had been trapped in legisl......
A Chinese state-media-backed blockbuster that draws on a 17th-century naval campaign against Taiwan — and frames it as a historical blueprint for modern unification — may not reach......
Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercise this year included, for the first time, a simulated internet disruption — throttling mobile data speeds across counties in the north and......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has quietly elevated drone planning to the Vice Chief of the General Staff level, establishing an internal task force to coordinate the island......
Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare raised the permissible residue limit for an insecticide on imported apples by a factor of six in April 2026. The government says industry as......
Taiwan is building a "next-generation ground combat wireless network" designed to keep military commanders connected to troops — and to police, firefighters, and hospitals — even i......
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has fallen to its lowest level in years even as the long-feared 2027 "Davidson Window" approaches, and Taiwanese intelligence believes it kn......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
Taiwan's Premier Cho Jung-tai faced calls to apologize in the Legislative Yuan this week over a carcinogenic cooking oil scandal centered on Central Union Oil Corp. (中聯油脂) — and sh......
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang toured East Asia this spring, he spent nearly two weeks in Taiwan calling it the "center of the AI revolution," then flew to South Korea to meet with S......
In late April 2026, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to conduct a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Eswatini to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coronation of Ki......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) delivered the strongest quarterly results in its history on July 16, with second-quarter revenue surpassing NT$1.27 trillion for t......
As China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress entered into force on July 1, Taiwan finds itself on the other side of a pointed contrast: a sweeping national security reform......
A new report from one of Australia's leading defense think tanks argues that China may not need to force its way through the Western-designed security cordon in the Western Pacific......
Taiwan last year recorded a total fertility rate of 0.695 — the lowest ever measured for any country in the world. No amount of cash incentives, childcare reform, or parental leave......
A decade after an international tribunal delivered a landmark ruling against Beijing's sweeping South China Sea claims, China has not merely maintained its refusal to accept the ve......
China's coast guard vessels are now patrolling waters far east of Taiwan — beyond even the "ten-dash line" Beijing drew on its own 2023 standard map — and analysts say the operatio......
South Korea has passed what legal observers call some of the world's toughest anti-scalping legislation, but the law's core penalties will not take effect until August 28 — leaving......
A Taiwanese district court judge vacationing in China was tracked down and interrogated at his hotel by Chinese public security officers, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) re......
Taiwan's legislature passed the Virtual Asset Service Act in its third reading on June 30, creating the country's first licensing framework for cryptocurrency service providers and......
Taiwan's government has formally condemned China after a Japanese-born political commentator was punched in the face during a public event in Taichung, an assault prosecutors say w......
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 ......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a People's Liberation Army Navy nuclear-powered submarine fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile carrying a simulated warhead into the South Pacific ......
Sixteen years after Taiwan and China signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the deal has outlived the political consensus that produced it — yet t......
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......
At roadside checkpoints across Taiwan, officers overwhelmingly test for one thing: alcohol. By one prosecutor's estimate, 99.9% of enforcement stops still target drunk driving, eve......
A growing number of illegal e-cigarette devices in Taiwan are being laced with etomidate — or cut with cannabis and metomidate — in a combination known on the street as a "zombie v......
A hospital anesthetic repackaged as fruit-flavored vape oil has fueled a 900-fold surge in drug detections, deadly crashes, and Taiwan's toughest narcotics upgrade in years — and e......
On June 27, Chinese and Russian air forces carried out their 11th Joint Air Strategic Patrol, sending more than 15 aircraft across the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the west......
Taiwan's top cross-strait policy body has accused Beijing of using a newly enacted ethnic unity law to impose legal obligations on Taiwanese citizens, warning the measure marks an ......
Taiwan's former President Tsai Ing-wen made her first public appearance in Taiwan on Thursday since returning from a trip to Italy, telling a business audience that the island can ......
Taiwan's anti-fraud task force was formally established in July 2022. Since then, the Executive Yuan has rolled out two updated versions of its national anti-fraud action plan, and......
Fraud messages don't materialize out of nowhere on your phone. They start as a fake investment ad on Facebook, a deepfake celebrity endorsement video, a fraudulent game promo code ......
You just collected a parcel from a convenience store. Minutes later, your phone rings — someone claiming to be from the logistics company, knowing exactly which platform you ordere......
Throughout June, Chinese coast guard vessels pushed into Japanese and Philippine waters on three separate fronts east and southeast of Taiwan, escorting government research ships a......
While much of central Taiwan braced against relentless downpours last week, a group of soldiers was deep in the rugged terrain near Guguan, completing one of the military's most gr......
As U.S.-Iran tensions show tentative signs of easing, a prominent Washington strategist is urging the Trump administration to confront an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of its ......
China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress takes effect on July 1, giving Beijing a sweeping new legal instrument that analysts and foreign governments warn could extend pu......
Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters surrounding Itu Aba Island on June 11 — the first deliberate intrusion since Taiwan formally designated those zones in ......
China's export restrictions on Japan, now in their sixth month, are doing exactly what Beijing intended: severing a critical link in the U.S. defense industrial supply chain — and ......
Taiwan's Drone Billions Risk Becoming a Procurement Parade Without a Strategy
Money Without a Master Plan
During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
