Taiwan has rejected Chinese pressure over its participation in the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), with Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung saying there was no reason to give in to Beijing’s objections and
Taiwan’s electoral laws provide for the candidate with the highest number of votes becoming the winner on a first-past-the-post basis, and it is a moot point that the incumbent Vice President William
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Vice President William Lai (賴清德) won the presidential election last night, delivering the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a record third term in office. It is the first time since direct presidential elections
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The idea behind the podcast was a simple one. The US has strategic interests in Taiwan, in part because of its geopolitical location in the center of the First Island Chain, in
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On May 15, 2023, Berkshire Hathaway reported in a Form 13F filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had completed the sale of its $4 billion stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Joshua Keating is a foreign policy analyst, staff writer, and author of the World blog at Slate, and a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy magazine in an article updated on January 2022 wrote that “war over
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On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the
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