The “Unthinkable” In US-China Crisis Authored by Maria Ryan via Consortium News, One aspect of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan that has been largely overlooked is her meeting with Mark Lui, chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). Pelosi’s trip coincide...
One aspect of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan that has been largely overlooked is her meeting with Mark Lui, chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). Pelosi’s trip coincided with U.S. efforts to convince TSMC – the world’s largest chip manufacturer, on whic...
Mapping Taiwan's Thinly Weaved Diplomatic Web The past week has been one of suspense as U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi deliberated over whether or not to stop in Taiwan on her tour of Asia. After arriving, the US legislator said that the United States “will not abandon” the island, which is autonomou...
China's War-Drills Disrupt Container Ship Traffic To Taiwan's Top Ports As Beijing conducts war drills around Taiwan following a controversial trip to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, shipping vessels are avoiding Taiwan's top ports, creating what could be delayed export shipments of electroni...
Does Taiwan have a ship that could challenge China’s aircraft carriers? Taiwan cannot pin its hopes on a large vessel. The Taiwanese answer to the above question is a fast-moving corvette, rather than a capital ship. But this ship has missiles on board that Taiwan hopes are powerful enough to fatall...
'China Wins' If Pelosi Doesn't Go To Taiwan: McConnell Nancy Pelosi has painted herself into quite the corner regarding her upcoming trip to Taiwan. If she cancels the trip over Beijing's objections, she'll have “handed China sort of a victory of sorts,” according to a Tuesday statement by Senate Minorit...