GENERATION GAP: On nearly every issue, younger respondents were 20 to 30 percentage points less likely than older one to express concern about China
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe Taiwan’s security is important for US security and prosperity, the results of the 2026 Reagan Institute Summer Survey released on Monday showed.Sixty-six percent of respondents said they agreed that Taiwan’s security matters to the US, including 72 percent of R
The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed a law establishing a regulatory framework for Taiwanese cryptocurrency businesses, including licensing requirements for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and stablecoin issuers, as well as penalties for fraud and market manipulation.Under the Virtual Asset
Three to five tropical storms or typhoons are expected to pass near Taiwan during the second half of this year, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday.That range is within the historical average, while the total number of tropical storms forming over the northwestern Pacific is fore
More than 14,000 people from an influential religious group yesterday staged surprise protests in the Philippine capital, crippling the main thoroughfare and further fueling political tensions.Crowds grew larger throughout the day after members of Iglesia ni Cristo occupied parts of Manila’s central
NO ‘FREE LUNCH’: China uses trade measures as political leverage and tools of pressure, weaponizing trade to force Taiwan to accept its views, the MAC said
Taiwan’s exports to China under the Early Harvest Program of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) fell to a record low last year, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday on the agreement’s 16th anniversary. Exports covered by the program fell to US$13.1 billion last year, ac
DISASTER PREPARATION: A Ministry of Environment official said the ‘heat day off’ issue is under review across ministries including education and labor
The Ministry of Environment yesterday held a multiagency tabletop exercise simulating an extreme heat scenario of 40°C, focusing on compound disaster impacts and support measures for vulnerable groups. The exercise involved 34 central and local agencies, and simulated three consecutive days of 40°C
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is preparing to introduce its own domestic drone procurement bill after the legislature last week blocked the Executive Yuan’s proposed NT$210 billion (US$6.59 billion) special budget for the purpose. The Executive Yuan on June 18 approved a draft special act for
China yesterday imposed new export controls on 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to the country’s “remilitarization,” as tensions with Tokyo rise. Relations between Beijing and Tokyo have been increasingly tense since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last year implied Japan could i
US President Donald Trump yesterday said on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with US counterparts, but one of Iran’s top negotiators said no further talks had been scheduled after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war. The US president
BUDGET HICCUP: While the NCSIST said part of the system is ready for deployment, opposition lawmakers removed the project’s funding during its legislative review
Taiwan’s integrated air defense intelligence system is on track to be completed by the end of the year, and, if additional funding is approved, the military aims to deploy it next year, a military source said.The first phase of a next-generation, domestically developed regional air defense system co
DEMAND: Yuanta projected exports to increase 25.49%, domestic investment to grow 8.38% and private consumption to expand 4.99% from last year
Yuanta Securities Investment Consulting Co (元大投顧) has upgraded its forecast for Taiwan’s GDP growth this year to 11.05 percent from the 8.72 percent it estimated in March, as artificial intelligence (AI)-driven growth momentum remains resilient despite a slump in the housing market.“Given the contin
COUNTER: The government should put forward a more proactive exchange policy for the youth and encourage them to engage with the wider world, the source said
Beijing is trying to entice young Taiwanese to attend the Cross-Strait Sun Yat-sen Forum in Guangdong Province, China, by offering to cover all their expenses except round-trip airfare, an official said yesterday.“The cheapest things are the most expensive,” an official familiar with China’s “united
Tehran yesterday launched drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US airstrikes that hit Iran, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight spar
South Korea and Japan yesterday reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, despite Pyongyang’s repeated pledges to expand its nuclear arsenal.Meeting in Seoul, South Korean Minister of National Defense Ahn Gyu-back and Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjir
DEEPER TIES: The ex-president met and discussed Taiwan’s views with global leaders, helping bring the nation closer to international decisionmaking circles, Rosalia Wu said
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) attended a diplomatic outreach in Italy earlier this week, sharing the stage with current and former female leaders around the world, including former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement yesterday.Tsai
Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) on Friday met with US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson in Washington, exchanging views on shared priorities, including Taiwan-US security cooperation, economic and trade ties, and industrial collaboration, the Legislative Yuan said in a statement.Han
PRE-EMPTIVE MEASURE About 200 people from seven villages have been evacuated and bridges to the areas have been closed as a precaution, FANCA said
The Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency’s (FANCA) Hualien Branch yesterday announced that seven communities within the outwash area of a newly formed barrier lake upstream in the Wanli River (萬里溪) have been pre-emptively evacuated as the lake filled toward overflowing.A yellow alert for the area
Iran launched a drone assault targeting Bahrain while a ship in the Strait of Hormuz separately came under attack yesterday, likely Tehran’s response to overnight airstrikes by the US.The attacks across the Persian Gulf show the danger of the Iran war again spinning out of control, even after Iran a
South Korea said it had sent up fighter jets as a precaution after more than 10 Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered its air defense zone yesterday.The Chinese and Russian aircraft had entered and then left the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) over the East Sea and the South Se
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