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For an economy that relies so much on microchips from the low end to the most advanced, its worsening relationship with Beijing is forcing others to diversify critical supply chains and production facilities.

The much-anticipated press conference at the close of the National People’s Congress was cancelled, discontinuing a customary practice that was established in the early 1990s.

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Mainland China is sanctioned for selling dual-use civilian materials but island supplier of key explosive for artillery shells appears to get friendly advice to redirect sales to EU.

  • Eastern naval and coastguard units practise responses to an attack on a flotilla
  • Drill follows tensions in the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait
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Rebellions, a fabless AI chip company co-founded by five South Korean engineers, is viewed as the country’s best hope to rival Nvidia in AI inference.

In a Gallup poll released on Monday, 41 per cent of respondents said China when asked to name one country they considered to be their nation’s ‘greatest enemy today’.

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Representatives from Taipei have been included in all three democracy summits, which were begun by US President Joe Biden in 2021, and mainland China has been excluded.

The port in Batanes could facilitate rapid troop deployment and serve as a transit point for supplies and evacuated Filipinos in the event of a conflict.

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Geopolitical tensions, coupled with a weakened and more uncertain business environment on the mainland, continue to take a toll on investor confidence among Taiwanese investors.

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Island’s former de facto ambassador to Washington said to be travelling in private capacity. Beijing has urged Washington not to arrange ‘any form’ of official contact.

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Request for 2025 budget is ‘historic investment in Taiwan’s security’, US State Department says, as Pentagon seeks US$500 million in arms support for island.

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The US tech giant’s latest initiative shows that it remains committed to boosting capital spending in the world’s largest smartphone market, despite sluggish iPhone sales.

President Marcos Jnr recently described his country as a frontline state, in remarks that recalled the Philippines’ dark chapter of being colonised by Japan.

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Moscow’s dire circumstances could lead to upended ‘non-proliferation norms’ and fuel disinformation meant to interfere with elections, Senate hears.

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US authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said Nvidia used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform.

As Taiwan’s young generation dust off disco records from the 1970s and 80s, scholars consider how the island came to embrace a Western music genre at a time when even dancing in public was illegal.

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Korbein Schultz was allegedly paid US$42,000 to provide information to an individual he believed lived in Hong Kong about US plans in the event Taiwan came under attack.