Taiwan

U.S. Lawmaker Urges Taiwan’s KMT to Follow Through on Drone Funding

The chairman of a U.S. House committee focused on strategic competition with China urged Taiwan’s main opposition Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT,

Taiwanese Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) is in Italy attending a democracy forum. Vice-presidential trips to countries without diplomatic ties

Taiwan’s government has formally proposed spending an extra 145.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($4.6 billion) on defense in 2027, on top of the NTD

Go to a trade show in Taipei and you will see humanoids stumbling awkwardly toward objects and robot dogs climbing a mountain composed of a few short

Foreign Minister Lin Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), visited Palau last week for the annual meeting of the Pacific

Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence Semicon Taiwan, one of the world’s largest semiconductor trade shows, kicked off on Monday and has

As much as skyrocketing AI demand has been a boon for Taiwanese tech, it has also put stress on the system. “The whole world is here to have a

Taiwanese people tend to be pessimistic about the economy. From the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s, economic approval numbers hovered around 10%,

When mobile connections in parts of Taiwan were throttled to text-only speeds during urban resilience drills earlier this month, local officials in

In eras of divided government, Taiwan’s legislature frequently passes bills that the ruling party does not like. Ordinarily, the president and his

The recent passing exercise between the Indonesian navy ship KRI I Gusti Ngurah Rai and the Chinese navy ship Honghe in waters to the east of Taiwan

Last week, when Taiwan’s government announced the 2027 defense budget, the headline was an 18% increase in spending. That will bring Taiwan’s