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Taiwan

  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Foreign exchange
    Taiwan’s currency jumps as life insurers rush to hedge against weak US dollar

    New Taiwan dollar makes biggest single-day gain since rapid appreciation in early May

    A person holds a US $100 bill in one hand and a New Taiwan dollar $1000 banknote in the other
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Taiwan develops suicide drones akin to Ukraine’s to defend against China

    Autonomous weapons have same operating and AI strike systems used to target Russian tanks and oil rig

    An Overkill attack drone
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Central banks
    Taiwan warms up to a SWF

    Just another Swiftie?

  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Taiwan launches unity drive as China threat looms

    President Lai Ching-te makes push as his party campaigns to reclaim control of parliament

    Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te with soldiers in the background
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Taiwan recall votes threaten to upend opposition grip on parliament

    Possible removal of up to 24 KMT legislators could open way for ruling DPP to strengthen defences against China

    KMT legislators holding up placards while disrupting parliamentary proceedings in February
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    Bao restaurant founder Erchen Chang leads a food tour of Taipei

    The chef loves the markets, museums and “theatrics” of her hometown

    Erchen Chang in Chan Chi Hot Pot Lab
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Travel
    Postcard from Taiwan: the holiday islands on the frontline

    Despite a history of conflict with China — and renewed fears as tensions rise — Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands continue to draw tourists

    An illustration of a body of water with a rocky and tree-covered shoreline featuring a stone statue. There is a city skyline in the distance
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    News in-depthChinese military
    China improves ability to launch sudden attack on Taiwan, officials say

    Military build-up enables Beijing to switch from peacetime to war operations quickly

    China’s 1st Type 075 amphibious assault ship
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Investing in funds
    Taiwan’s huge ETF industry is in an FX pickle

    It’s not just a lifer issue

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Nvidia
    Nvidia chief announces major Taiwan chip investments

    Jensen Huang reveals plans for new Taipei base and AI supercomputer as he stresses island’s global importance

    Jensen Huang on stage giving his presentation in front of an image of the new base
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Currencies
    Taiwan’s double, double toil and trouble

    Quite the predicament

  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Taiwan TV drama to give public a visceral vision of war with China

    Controversial series ‘Zero Day’ is first to realistically depict a Chinese invasion of the democratic but divided island

    A night scene showing a man armed with a handgun in front of others hanging up pro-China banners
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    What the turmoil in Asian currencies tells us

    The really big risks to the dollar remain US geopolitical and policy errors

    Taiwanese one-thousand dollar banknotes
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Currencies
    Taiwanese troubles; Formosa bonds and US interest rate volatility

    Clickbait, Alphaville-style

  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Foreign exchange
    Taiwan dollar jumps 6.5% in two days over trade deal fears

    Currency surges as life insurers move to cover under-hedged positions in US assets

    A Taiwan dollar note
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Foreign exchange
    Uh-oh, the Taiwanese dollar is having a mad one

    Asset-liability mismatches FTW

  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Visual story
    Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US

    The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

    An exploded view of an iPhone 14 showing its internal components separated and laid out in 3D
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    InterviewPalau
    Palau’s president vows to stand with Taiwan ‘til death do us part’

    Surangel Whipps Jr warns Pacific nations must show economic gains to justify snubbing Beijing

    President Surangel Whipps Jr
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US consumers face sharp price increases from Trump’s tariffs, say analysts

    High levies will apply to Asian nations that Americans rely on for household goods

    Vietnamese garment workers in a factory
  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    US-China relations
    Taiwan’s top security official arrives in US for secret talks

    Meeting comes amid mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing

    Taiwanese officials pose for photos with soldiers
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Chinese military
    China launches large-scale military exercises around Taiwan

    Aircraft carrier Shandong makes closest pass as Taipei seeks to strengthen preparedness

    China’s aircraft carrier Shandong, seen in a screenshot taken from a video released by the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army on Tuesday
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Semiconductors
    Taiwan accuses Chinese chipmakers of illegally poaching engineers

    Beijing’s semiconductor champion SMIC accused of posing as Samoa entity to evade foreign investment restrictions

    Chinese employees dressed in dust-proof clothing work at a Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp plant in Beijing
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    Singapore’s UOBAM set to enter Taiwan active ETF market

    Asset manager also plans to expand ETF sales in China via stalled cross-listing scheme

    Pedestrians in the Wanhua shopping area of Taipei, Taiwan
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Taiwan boosts defence readiness in show to US and China

    Exercise to shore up civil resilience is part of broader push to strengthen armed forces

    Taiwanese soldiers stand in formation, wearing camouflage uniforms and helmets, holding rifles at a military air base in Taipei
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Michael Schiffer
    US strategic ambiguity on Taiwan won’t work any longer

    Washington must be clear with Beijing about the consequences of an assault on Taipei

    Chinese warship Luyang III sails near the U.S. destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, as seen from the deck of US destroyer, in the Taiwan Strait
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