Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has been dubbed Taiwan’s “sacred mountain.” In the past few years, it has invested in the construction of fabs in the US, Japan and Europe, and has long been a world-leading super enterprise — a source of pride for Taiwanese.However, many erroneous news r
US president-elect Donald Trump is to return to the White House in January, but his second term would surely be different from the first. His Cabinet would not include former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former US national security adviser John Bolton, both outspoken supporters of Taiwan.Tr
The succession of states is a situation under international law in which one state is replaced by another in its rights over the administration and governance of a territory, but above all, when the “successor” state assumes the responsibilities of the “predecessor” state with regard to its internat
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Some Asian countries stand to gain if US president-elect Donald Trump pushes ahead with his promised massive tariffs on China and triggers a new wave of factory relocations to the rest of the region, but a trade war between the world’s biggest economies would also destabilize markets everywhere, wit
In the early 19th century, when Britannia — John Bull — ruled the waves and funded all of Europe’s struggle against Napoleon, there was a popular English song that included the lyrics: “Who pays the piper? I, said John Bull. Whoever plays the Fool, I pay the piper.”For the past 80 years, whoever has
The nation’s two major economic research institutes last week warned that US president-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House would create uncertainty for Taiwan’s foreign trade outlook and Taiwanese firms’ global investment plans, given his extreme policy proposals on tariffs, corporate tax
The return of US president-elect Donald Trump to the White House has injected a new wave of anxiety across the Taiwan Strait. For Taiwan, an island whose very survival depends on the delicate and strategic support from the US, Trump’s election victory raises a cascade of questions and fears about wh
As the world ponders what US president-elect Donald Trump’s second term would mean for relations with the world’s largest economy and most powerful military, Taiwan has unique considerations and anxieties about the next four years as it seeks to maintain a stable partnership with its most critical a
I recently read an article published in the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper), in which author Dino Wei (魏思源) suggests that life sentences without parole could be a complementary measure to the abolition of the death penalty. The French penal code was amended in 1994 so that crimina
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The spotlight is on Azerbaijan as the small petro-state in the South Caucasus hosts the UN’s biggest climate conference. Diplomats from across the world will descend on the capital Baku for the annual climate summit, known as COP29, to discuss how to avoid increasing threats from climate change in a
The US elections were supposed to clarify policy uncertainties, and on the economic front, US president-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris has done just that. All three major US stock indices and US Treasury yields jumped the morning after election day, reflecting expecta
The Taipei District Court on Nov. 1 agreed to extend the detention of Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) for his suspected involvement in corruption involving a real-estate project during his time as Taipei mayor. Different voices are beginning to emerge from within the TPP about h
The Taiwanese have proven to be resilient in the face of disasters and they have resisted continuing attempts to subordinate Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Nonetheless, the Taiwanese can and should do more to become even more resilient and to be better prepared for resistance should
In response to alleged plagiarism in Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taoyuan City Councilor Ling Tao’s (凌濤) master’s thesis, the academic ethics committee of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) said that Ling had completed the procedure of adding annotations and replacing the submitted t
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Are you ready for US president-elect Donald Trump unbound? You might have thought the former and future president was already pretty unrestrained, not least because Trump has never shown anything but brazen disrespect for boundaries or limits of any kind, and you would be right.However, as an earlie
The collapse of Germany’s deeply unloved and dysfunctional three-party coalition offers Europe’s biggest economy an opportunity for political and economic renewal. Two important questions arise: Would Germany put aside political squabbles and grab its golden opportunity, and if so, what can and shou
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