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Taiwan

  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s drive to give Taiwanese visitors local IDs alarms Taipei

    Officials fear jurisdiction will be compromised and push could open door for Beijing to intervene in its domestic affairs

    People cheer during the 2025 Taipei New Year’s Party celebration in front of the Taipei City government building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, December 31, 2024
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    Taiwan asks South Korea for help over Chinese ship after subsea cable damaged

    Shunxing39 cargo vessel is heading for Busan after Taipei suggests anchor-dragging was ‘sabotage’

    Photo taken and released by Taiwan’s Coast Guard on December 12 2024 shows a Taiwanese coast guard ship monitoring a Chinese coast guard ship, a few nautical miles from Taiwan’s northeastern coast
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Space industry
    Taiwan in talks with Amazon’s Kuiper on satellite comms amid China fears

    Minister says Eutelsat OneWeb network falling short and Elon Musk’s Starlink ‘not an option’ given his Chinese links

    A rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depthChinese military
    Big Chinese naval exercise leaves Taiwan and US struggling for response

    Taipei and Washington draw different conclusions over meaning of unannounced military deployment

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    China starts military movements after Taiwan leader’s first foreign trip

    Beijing’s aviation authorities have partially restricted swaths of airspace, indicating imminent military activity

    Lai Ching-te waves upon arrival at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan on Friday
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Invisible Nation — a tour de force documentary about Taiwan

    The island’s former president Tsai Ing-wen is the star of a thoughtful study of Taiwan’s past, present and uncertain future

    A woman sits in a room speaking and gesticulating. Behind her stand four large flags of Taiwan
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Tech Tonic podcast23 min listen
    The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’

    How long can the island rely on its chipmaking industry to deter a Chinese invasion?

  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Taiwan considers big US defence purchases as overture to Trump

    Taipei wants to show new administration it is serious about protecting itself against China

    A Patriot missile being fired
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Chipmaker TSMC hit by Taiwan’s soaring energy prices and growing outages

    Industry loses competitiveness as government struggles to afford cheap-power incentives

    The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company logo is prominently displayed on a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. In the foreground, two people wearing work attire and hard hats are walking
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    US trade
    US and Taiwan set for talks to end double taxation for companies

    Deal would increase investment in American semiconductor manufacturing and away from China

    People walk past US and Taiwan flags
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Taiwan ETF issuers to pull in $420mn in fees this year

    Total ETF assets soared nearly 50% in eight months to end of August

    A man looks at stock market monitors in Taipei
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Chinese military
    China’s show of force in massive military exercises alarms Taiwan

    Taipei wants other democracies to push back harder against Beijing

    A fighter jet takes off from the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, illuminated against the dark sea and sky, during nighttime military drills
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Chinese military
    China deploys record number of warplanes in drills around Taiwan

    Manoeuvres come after president asserted sovereignty but asked Beijing to co-operate to secure peace

    A Chinese warship sails in the foreground, with the aircraft carrier Shandong visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky during battle group training in footage released in August 2022
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Taiwan’s president calls on China to ‘live up to’ duty to protect peace

    Lai Ching-te says Beijing has ‘no right to represent’ Taipei in first National Day speech

    Lai Ching-te gestures during Taiwan’s National Day celebration, standing at a podium adorned with purple flowers in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei. A blue flag with the Republic of China Armed Forces emblem is visible in the foreground.
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    US and Taiwan seek to strengthen drone supply chain to keep out China

    Co-operation would be part of wider western ‘de-risking’ because of security fears over Chinese products

    A soldier stands next to the AeroVironment Switchblade drone
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    China’s growing military activity makes a shift to war harder to spot, warns Taiwan

    Defence minister says Taipei will not have as long to respond to any emergency as in the past

    Wellington Koo speaks while standing among several soldiers during missile shooting exercises in Fangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan. The soldiers are dressed in camouflage uniforms and helmets, and some are wearing protective goggles.
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    From Taipei to Budapest: the mysterious trail of exploding pagers

    Supply chain of devices involved in audacious attacks in Lebanon spans three continents

    Hsu Ching-Kuang, president of Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company’s office in Taipei on Wednesday
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Taiwan regulator blocks hostile bank takeover to clear way for rival deal

    Planned $17bn friendly tie-up between Shin Kong and Taishin would be country’s biggest financial sector merger

    Welch Lin, president of Taishin Financial Holding,  standing by a window
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    #techAsia
    Export clampdowns and a smartphone face-off Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    People walk past Huawei Mate XT
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    US-China relations
    US Navy Seal unit that killed bin Laden trains for China invasion of Taiwan

    Elite commando team makes plans to help island nation in event Beijing launches war

    A montage of the Seal Team 6 logo, Taiwan map and US Navy Seal members
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Taiwan police detain former presidential candidate in corruption probe

    Ko Wen-je’s arrest rekindles debate over graft in development projects and judicial independence

    Ko Wen-je leaves the District Court in Taipei, Taiwan
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Taiwan regulator moves to correct ‘imbalance’ caused by ETF boom

    The FSC is concerned about a potential brain drain from the stockpicking industry caused by demand for passive ETFs

    A woman walks past a screen showing information and the index of the Taipei Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Taiwan’s defence reforms will help stabilise relations with China, says US envoy

    Raymond Greene says Washington would ‘not rule out’ joint weapons development with Taipei

    Two Taiwanese soldiers watch a vehicle fire US-made missiles at a target during a shooting exercise in Fangshan last month
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    US-China relations
    Taiwan’s top security officials make secret trip to US for talks

    Visit to Washington area this week comes at sensitive time in relations between Beijing and Taipei

    Joseph Wu
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Yuanta and Uni-President fined for ‘misleading’ Taiwan ETF adverts

    Regulator criticises use of phrases such as ‘interest falls like rain’ and ‘uninterrupted cash flow’

    A man looks at stock market monitors in Taipei
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