Politics

An official delegation lead by Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil, left, arrives in Taiwan as Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu greets them on Aug. 30.
International relations

China says Czech senate speaker will pay heavy price for Taiwan visit

Vystrcil arrived in Taipei on Sunday on a visit to promote business links

31 August 2020
A semiconductor factory in Beijing: China courts Taiwanese investment in the mainland tech sector by offering tax and other incentives.
Politics

Taiwan tightens screening of tech investment in mainland China

Taipei aims to protect chip design know-how from Beijing by reviewing proposals

28 August 2020
Tugboats dock an oil tanker at the port of Zhoushan: Chinese refiners ramped up imports of U.S. crude arriving in July and August to more than 1 million barrels a day.
Opinion

Oil price shocks set to jolt Asia, no matter who wins US election

Region's oil-hungry economies should start preparing to roll with the punches

27 August 2020
One of the key battlegrounds in the U.S.-China tech cold war is 5G telecommunications technology.
International relations

Taiwan and US join forces on 5G security in move to exclude China

Joint declaration bolsters 'Clean Network' initiative as Huawei fights for future

26 August 2020
National Taiwan University. A decision to bar Chinese students from entering Taiwan, apart from those graduating in the current academic year, has left around 5,000 Chinese students in limbo.
International relations

Taiwan lifts ban on foreign students, but keeps Chinese out

New policy angers Taiwanese rights advocates, who label it 'discriminatory'

21 August 2020
Amid the intensifying tech standoff between Beijing and Washington, Taiwan is moving away from China and forging closer ties with the U.S. (Source photos by Reuters)
Trade war

Taiwan unveils new rules to tighten Chinese investment screening

Taipei joining with US to prevent companies from circumventing regulations

20 August 2020
Recent turmoil in Hong Kong has put Taiwan on edge.
Politics

Taiwan to scrutinize mainland investment via Hong Kong

Crackdown aims to block indirect capital flows that threaten island tech

19 August 2020
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at the presidential office in Taipei on Aug. 10: China will respond cautiously to the Azar visit.
Opinion

US health chief's Taiwan visit calibrated to incense China

Beijing's retaliation options include scrapping US-China phase one trade deal

13 August 2020
Xi Jinping and Tsai Ing-wen have been on the opposite side of an existential argument since it was first posed by Lee Teng-hui more than 20 years ago. (Nikkei montage/source photos by AP/Reuters/Getty Images) 
China up close

Xi Jinping's red line on Taiwan goes back to Lee Teng-hui

Chinese leader now confronts 'two states' protege in popular Tsai Ing-wen

13 August 2020
Foxconn has been ramping up its production capacity in a number of countries outside China, including India and Vietnam.
Companies

Foxconn planning for 'inevitable' split between US-China markets

30% of Apple supplier's capacity now outside of China due to trade tensions

12 August 2020
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar tours Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center on Aug. 10.
International relations

US health chief says Taiwan talks touched on bilateral trade pact

Azar questions Russia's COVID vaccine, calling process 'not transparent'

12 August 2020
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, speaks as Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen looks on in a news conference at the Presidential Office in Taipei on Aug. 10. (Photo courtesy of Central News Agency)
International relations

US and Taiwan tout 'democratic' effort on virus to China's chagrin

Beijing plans military drills near the island following Azar's visit

11 August 2020
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar arrives at Taipei Songshan Airport, Taiwan Aug. 9.
International relations

US health chief lands in Taiwan on 'highest level' trip since 1979

Alex Azar's visit follows dramatic week in tech Cold War with China

9 August 2020
Lee Teng-hui, left, toasts his victory in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. 
Obituaries

For Lee Teng-hui, it was 'better not to be involved in politics'

Taiwan's president confronted Kuomintang, driving out influential mainlanders

2 August 2020
Tsai Ing-wen, then presidential candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party, hugs former president Lee Teng-hui during his last election rally at New Taipei City in January 2012. Tsai is now Taiwan's president.
Obituaries

Lee Teng-hui's dream of 'two states' paved way for Tsai Ing-wen

Former president's education policy helped forge Taiwanese identity

31 July 2020
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, in 2018.
Obituaries

Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's 'Father of Democracy,' dies at 97

First president elected by popular vote worked to raise island's global standing

31 July 2020
Demonstrators march in a protest demanding the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok on July 26.
Turbulent Thailand

Thai youth protests draw moral support from Hong Kong activists

Taiwan peers also join 'Milk Tea Alliance' for more democracy in rebuff to China

28 July 2020
Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang speaks to Nikkei in her Taipei office last month. (Photo by Toshiyuki Kumagai)
International relations

Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister

Audrey Tang says Chinese region is a reminder of the value of liberal democracy

27 July 2020
Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang speaks to Nikkei Asian Review at her office in the Executive Yuan in Taipei. (Photo by Toshiyuki Kumagai)
Interview

Taiwan digital minister warns of China's 5G 'Trojan horse'

Audrey Tang says Taiwan acted in 2014 to keep Huawei out of systems

15 July 2020
Narita Airport near Tokyo and other Japanese flight hubs aim to nearly double coronavirus testing capacity by August. (Photo by Yo Inoue)
International relations

Japan looks to reopen business travel with 10 more Asian economies

China, South Korea and Singapore among candidates for new air bridges

9 July 2020
Since Chinese tourists contribute about A$12 billion to Australia's  economy each year, Beijing wants Canberra to pay a price for biting the hand that feeds it.
Opinion

China's economic bullying will never work

Beijing has threatened Australia, Japan and others with tariffs and tourism cuts

8 July 2020
Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army shout during a parade rehearsal in October 2019, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
International relations

Dreams of peaceful rise dashed, world wakes to a forceful China

Faced with Beijing's economic hostage taking, countries face bleak choices ahead

2 July 2020
"The purpose of this brutal, sweeping law is to frighten, intimidate and suppress Hong Kongers who are peacefully demanding the freedoms that were promised," U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in June 30 statement condemning the passage of the national security law.
1 July 2020
Japan is eager to reopen business travel to and from a number of territories, including Taiwan, Brunei, Myanmar and Singapore, but not China.
Coronavirus

Japan puts Taiwan and Brunei atop its business travel agenda

Myanmar also considered as Tokyo moves to undo coronavirus restraints

30 June 2020
Shipping containers at a port in Keelung, Taiwan.
Economy

China-Taiwan trade pact fails to deliver 10 years on

Suspicion toward Beijing widens economic split despite tariff cuts

30 June 2020