KMT's identity crisis, and more warnings on China
The KMT faces an identity challenge as its chairman described China as a threat, a description which goes against the party’s usual pro-China stance.
The US needs to face up to the urgent threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, but which it might possibly lose, argue two experts in Bloomberg.
US military officials are also warning of the increased threat posed by China towards Taiwan.
Taiwan has strengthened its garrison on Itu Arba (Taiping Island) in the South China Sea, while the US has approved the export of sensitive equipment for Taiwan’s indigenous submarine program.
Taiwan’s envoy to the US Hsiao Bi-khim is confident of continued US support given Joe Biden’s early Taiwan policy .
India should engage more with Taiwan due to several key reasons, argues Sana Hashmi in the Taipei Times.
Taiwan will hold four referendums this August on nuclear power, pork imports, a proposed LNG plant that will be built atop a reef, and about holding referendums during election years (so yes, the fourth one is a referendum about referendums), as explained in the Diplomat.
Taiwan’s success saw an infusion of overseas Taiwanese come in 2020 to escape COVID-19, which provided a boost to the local economy.
Taiwan and the Pacific island nation Palau are setting up a travel bubble that will start on April 1. Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. will visit Taiwan before the bubble begins.
Taiwan, especially TSMC, dominates the world’s semiconductor industry, as CNBC shows in two charts.
Bicycle makers’ revenues surged in the first two months of this year, with Giant Manufacturing seeing over 40 percent growth for that period.
The housing market in northern Taiwan remained sluggish in February, according to a housing index survey.
Hong Kong activists in Taiwan have started publishing a magazine aimed at overseas Hong Kongers.
Six people died in a tour bus crash on the Suhua Highway in Yilan country. The tour bus was carrying part of a group from a New Taipei City district that was on a two-day tour.
Lonely Planets lists Taiwan’s national parks and scenic areas.