# The Storm Media｜world.storm.mg > The Storm Media is an international-focused digital news outlet delivering sharp analysis and original reporting on Taiwan, cross-strait relations, Asia-Pacific affairs, and global business and technology trends. ## Channels - [Business & Tech](https://world.storm.mg/channel/335) - [Taiwan](https://world.storm.mg/channel/336) - [Editorial](https://world.storm.mg/channel/326) - [World](https://world.storm.mg/channel/325) - [Cross-Strait & Defense](https://world.storm.mg/channel/337) ## Featured Articles - [Beijing Watch | CCP Fifth Plenum Set for October, with Party Discipline and Economic Risks on Xi's Agenda](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1153532)：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 a... - [Red Dragnet｜'Saying It Out Loud Isn't Weakness': Exiled Hong Konger Carmen Lau on the Toll of Transnational Repression](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152994)：The first escalation came through her neighbors' letterboxes. Anonymous letters carrying Carmen Lau (劉珈汶)'s personal details, urging whoever read them... - [Taiwan City Diplomacy | Tainan Forges AI Robotics Alliance in Poland](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152220)：A delegation from Tainan joined business representatives and city officials in Poland's Pomerania region on July 24 to sign a memorandum of understand... - [Taiwan City Diplomacy | Tainan Courts Poland for Tropical Fruit Push](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152103)：Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) led a delegation to Poland's Pomerania region on July 24, courting local buyers and business leaders as the southern ... - [Taiwan Food Safety Crisis 2026: Tainted Cooking Oil Scandal Explained](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1151893)：If you have been in Taiwan this July, you may have noticed something odd: cooking oil bottles missing from supermarket shelves, convenience stores qui... - [Red Dragnet｜'Thailand Has Always Been China's Backyard': Inside the Machinery That Sends Exiles Home](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152989)：By the time human rights groups began campaigning in July for four Chinese dissidents held in a Bangkok detention centre, one of them had been gone fo... - [Beijing Watch | Taiwan's Toxic Oil Scandal Stirs Anxiety Across the Strait](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152450)：When Taiwan authorities ordered a sweeping recall of contaminated soybean cooking oil in July 2026, the story traveled quickly across the strait. But ... - [Robot-Assisted Cataract Surgery Gains Ground at Taiwan Eye Forum](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152106)：Taiwan became the gathering point for the global ophthalmology community this month when the 2026 joint annual meeting of the International Society of... - [Kumamoto 7.1 Quake Triggers TSMC Evacuation, Tsunami Warnings](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152271)：TSMC activated emergency evacuation protocols at its Kumamoto semiconductor facility on July 28 after a powerful earthquake struck Japan's Kyushu regi... - [Han Kuang 42 | Taiwan's Largest Reserve Call-Up Deploys 5,000 Troops](https://world.storm.mg/articles/1152550)：More than 5,000 reservists will be mobilized for this year's Han Kuang 42 exercise — the largest reserve call-up in the drill's history — as Taiwan's ... ## Topic Tracking - [Taiwan](https://world.storm.mg/keyword/Taiwan)：Japan's Defense Ministry released its 2026 Defense White Paper in August, delivering one of Tokyo's starkest public assessments yet of the military ba... - [China](https://world.storm.mg/keyword/China)：Japan's Defense Ministry released its 2026 Defense White Paper in August, delivering one of Tokyo's starkest public assessments yet of the military ba... - [Ministry of National Defense](https://world.storm.mg/keyword/Ministry%20of%20National%20Defense)：Taiwan is set to launch its largest live-fire war games in years on August 5, with Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) revealing in an exclusive bri... - [Han Kuang exercise](https://world.storm.mg/keyword/Han%20Kuang%20exercise)：Taiwan kicked off Han Kuang 42, its largest annual live-force military exercise, on August 5, with the ten-day drill drawing sharply divergent reactio... - [Artificial Intelligence](https://world.storm.mg/keyword/Artificial%20Intelligence)：Japan's Defense Ministry released its 2026 Defense White Paper in August, delivering one of Tokyo's starkest public assessments yet of the military ba... ## Key Authors - [Editorial Board](https://world.storm.mg/author/16013): A formidable collective of senior correspondents specializing in history, finance, politics, and international relations. - [International News Center](https://world.storm.mg/author/16334): Curating and translating top international reporting from leading global media including The Economist, NYT, FT, and WSJ. - [Chang Yu-ping](https://world.storm.mg/author/16366): Senior reporter covering Taiwan politics and society. - [Wu Dien-jung](https://world.storm.mg/author/16220): Editor-in-Chief at Storm Media; Master's degree in Sociology from National Taiwan University. For me, writing is a process of thinking. As Hannah Arendt once said, if she could remember all her thoughts without writing them down, she might never have written anything—because behind writing lies the desire to understand. - [Penny Wang](https://world.storm.mg/author/15990): Managing Editor, English News and the director of International & Cross-Strait Center, Storm Media. With years of deep-rooted experience in international news, my daily expertise spans the intersections of technology, finance, politics, military, and cross-strait affairs. ## Other Resources - [About The Storm Media](https://www.storm.mg/about) - [Contact Us](https://www.storm.mg/contacts) - [Advertise](https://www.storm.mg/advertisement) - [RSS Feed](https://world.storm.mg/feed): Structured data link for agents and crawlers