China's economy expanded just 4.3 percent in the second quarter, falling short of Beijing's own annual target range, while July retail sales inched up only 0.6 percent and fixed as......
TSMC reported consolidated net revenue of NT$467.58 billion for July 2026, its third consecutive monthly record, as surging demand from artificial intelligence and high-performance......
Japan is simultaneously pledging more than 370 trillion yen to strengthen its economy over the next 15 years and watching corporate IPOs fall to their lowest level in a decade and ......
The global AI infrastructure boom is beginning to extract a tangible cost from the consumer electronics supply chain — and Taiwan's largest chip designer is sounding the alarm. Med......
A delegation from Tainan joined business representatives and city officials in Poland's Pomerania region on July 24 to sign a memorandum of understanding establishing a Taiwan-Pola......
A 15-member delegation from Slovenia's ruling Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) wrapped up a five-day visit to Taiwan on July 17, in a trip that Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said ......
Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on July 15, coupling the financial beat with a multi-year capacity expansion plan th......
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......
As humanoid robots move from research labs to factory floors, a leading MIT artificial intelligence researcher says Taiwan's manufacturing depth and semiconductor supply chain give......
Taiwan may lack Europe's cultural cachet, but France's outgoing top envoy in Taipei says the island has become something Paris cannot do without: the manufacturing muscle behind Eu......
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 ......
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......
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix posted a voluntary employee turnover rate of just 0.5% among its domestic workforce in 2025 — a figure that reflects both the strength of its......
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 ......
Japan and South Korea are quietly closing in on their Western counterparts in global research output, even as China continues to pull away from the rest of the world, according to ......
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance must be bounded by clear ethical limits—or it risks becoming genuinely dangerous. That is the warning from Yen Bo-wen (顏博文), C......
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......
The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham) released the 31st edition of its annual Taiwan White Paper on June 16, marking the chamber's 75th anniversary at a moment of his......
When Conner Brown made his case for Bitcoin in Taipei, he did not begin with price charts. He began with 1949."A big part of why Taiwan was able to survive was the gold reserves," ......
Chris Miller, author of Chip War and professor of international history at Tufts University's Fletcher School, has a pointed warning for policymakers on both sides of the Pacific: ......
A sharp pullback in U.S. semiconductor stocks rattled Taiwan's equity market this week, but analysts are pointing to two structural support levels that suggest the sell-off may rep......
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (陳立武) addressed intensifying competition in the AI PC and high-end PC markets at Computex 2026 on June 2, responding directly to questions about NVIDIA's entry......
While the world's top technology executives converged on Taipei for COMPUTEX, Huawei was making its own statement — 1,000 kilometers away in Shanghai. At the ISCAS 2026 conference,......
Nvidia's top executive used a global press conference on Wednesday to send an unambiguous message: supply chain diversification is not a retreat from Taiwan — it is a strategy buil......
China's State Council on June 1, 2026 formally published the Outbound Investment Regulations (對外投資法), set to take effect on July 1. The rules establish a clearer framework for Chin......
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......
Cerebras Systems went public on Nasdaq this month at a $100 billion valuation. The more consequential story is how it got there.
On May 14, 2026, the opening bell at Nasdaq marked......
Advanced Micro Devices plans to co-invest more than $10 billion with Taiwan-based supply chain partners to lock in manufacturing capacity ahead of what the company expects will be......
For years, the debate over Taiwan's defense budget has orbited a single, politically loaded question: does military spending crowd out social welfare? That framing is understandabl......
What Xi Actually Said to Trump — and Why It Matters More Than Taiwan's Response
After the Trump-Xi summit in China, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) issued a 1,500-character statement......
Applied Materials and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) have announced a new collaboration at Applied Materials' Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization ......
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet on Wednesday, May 14, Taiwan's national security establishment is pushing back against what officials describe as a dangerously distorted narrat......
Security has been tightened around Tiananmen Square for days. A state banquet is planned, along with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. China, theBBC reports, is ready to put on a sh......
Taiwan's stock market delivered one of its strongest monthly performances in nearly four decades in April, with the weighted index surging 7,203.84 points, or 22.73%. The advance r......
Samsung Electronics' retreat from China's home appliance market is the product of years of mounting pressure — from a product safety scandal to geopolitical turbulence to the uns......
When the Arizona Commerce Authority launched its inaugural AI and Semiconductor Global Forum in Phoenix on April 30, Taiwan showed up in force — more than 80 companies and roughly ......
How a Three-Way Power Infrastructure Deal Signals Taiwan's Next Industrial Upgrade?
Rockwell Automation, Nan Ya Plastics (南亞), and Monisun Electricity Technology (曉暘電能科技) have sig......
A Taiwanese court convicted four engineers and a corporate defendant Monday in a landmark first-instance ruling over the theft of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s (TSMC) c......
Taiwan's semiconductor and technology firms are embarking on an unprecedented investment surge into the United States, with total commitments projected to reach as much as $500 bil......
