Taiwan, Hegseth and cold war
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM) is weighing an advanced gigafab in the United Arab Emirates. The contract chipmaker is exploring a complex of six factories (similar to its Arizona fab),
Filial’ factory worker from poor background ignores long-suffering, stroke-hit mother for five days, neighbours express ‘disbelief’.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned of China posing an "imminent" threat to Taiwan, while urging Asian countries to boost defence spending and work with the US to deter war.
America reassured nervous Asian friends that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan was “neither imminent nor inevitable”. But in a dramatic shift on May 31st Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said the Chinese threat “could be imminent”;
Taiwan's central bank said on Sunday that U.S. government debt is "sound" and still favoured by investors, and there are no worries about the U.S. dollar's position as the leading international reserve currency.
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While the U.S. remains a “very important” strategic partner, the Beijing-claimed island “fully recognizes” the need to strengthen its defense capabilities, a Defense Ministry official said.
But according to the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), a nonprofit research institute funded by the NSTC, IPAC’25 highlighted Taiwan’s over 30 years of accumulated R&D strength in synchrotron radiation and accelerator technology.
Fu Tong and his wife Elaine To were among the first demonstrators in Hong Kong to be charged with rioting in 2020 after pro-democracy and anti-China protests started in 2019 in the former British colony.
Gyrations in the Taiwanese dollar have dented appetite for trading its derivatives in offshore markets, making it costlier for the island’s insurers to hedge their massive dollar assets.
American and Taiwanese officials have estimated China will be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027 after rapidly modernizing its military over the past two decades.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — The family of a missing University of Oklahoma student is offering $50,000. Diego reportedly went missing in Taiwan. He was conducting a research study in Asia for the summer. Police in Taiwan, along with the Embassy and the University, are aware of the situation.
Tensions are simmering in Asia as military maneuvers near the disputed island spark fears of a looming conflict