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Advertisement The former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s whirlwind visit to Taiwan in 2022 made waves. It was the second such visit since Washington cut diplomatic ties with Taipei in 1979, and the first in 25 years. This unusual trip not only led to unprecedented responses …

Advertisement The construction of an Arizona plant by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), at a cost of $12 billion, has been subject to controversy in Taiwan. Namely, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has accused the ruling Tsai administration of “gifting” TSMC to the United States, suggesting that this will erode …

Advertisement On January 9, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen welcomed a congressional delegation from the Republic of Paraguay to the presidential office in Taipei. Her objective was simple: to remind the visiting politicians of her country’s value as an ally. Tsai welcomed this delegation amid an uncertain time in bilateral ties. …

Supporters of Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election candidate, the KMT’s Han Kuo-yu, pass along a Taiwan flag at a campaign rally in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city on Jan 10, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Advertisement The Kuomintang (KMT), or Chinese Nationalist Party, despite being the main opposition party in Taiwan …

Victory is assured. But the cost will be high. That’s the take-home message being touted after Taiwan’s future was subjected to a bout of wargaming. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) brought various military experts together to run through a potential war with China. They did so 24 …

The United Kingdom and Japan signed a “landmark” defence agreement which will bolster economic security and reiterated their commitment to the Indo-Pacific, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. Taking to Twitter, Sunak said, “This week Prime Minister @Kishida230 and I signed a …

Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC’s confirmation Thursday that it is considering its first chips plant in Europe is set to be an economically attractive — but geopolitically sensitive — project for the likely host country, Germany. In a call on the company’s last quarter earnings, TSMC chief C. C. Wei said that it …

Advertisement Lithuanian lawmakers on a visit to Taiwan took aim at China, saying the world’s second largest economy tried to use all sorts of measures to change Lithuania’s decision to break diplomatic norms in warming up relations with the self-ruled island democracy. Taiwan is hosting German and Lithuanian lawmakers this …

Taiwan is likely to defeat a Chinese invasion if the United States comes to the island’s defence, a prominent think-tank says, but it warns that such a victory would come at “enormous” cost, including the loss of tens of thousands of lives and damage to Washington’s global position. The Center …

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not succeed should the U.S. and Japan back Taipei but it would come at a high cost for all parties involved, the influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said. In the report ‘The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese …

WASHINGTON: A Chinese language invasion of Taiwan would seemingly fail if america helps defend the island — however at a debilitating value to the American army itself, in accordance with a US assume tank Monday.Navy specialists introduced collectively by the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research to wargame the battle …

A Chinese language invasion of Taiwan in 2026 would lead to hundreds of casualties amongst Chinese, United States, Taiwanese and Japanese forces, in accordance with a number of iterations of a extremely superior war-game simulation. An invasion could be unlikely to lead to a victory for Beijing, the simulation by …