BERLIN—Volkswagen said allegations made against it by Acer were unfounded, after a magazine reported that the Taiwanese computer maker had sued the German carmaker for infringing on its mobile network patents. German weekly WirtschaftsWoche had reported earlier on Tuesday that Acer had filed a suit in the U.S. state of Virginia, alleging that Volkswagen had…
Peng Shuai Denies Making Sexual Assault Allegation
The pandemic isn’t the only disease plaguing China. State media outlets are reporting an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in a northwestern province. Tennis player Peng Shuai reemerges after vanishing for weeks. But she’s now singing a different tune, walking back on the statement that started it all. Now, she claims she never accused anyone of…
China’s Chip Sector Meets Headwinds While CCP Is Mistrustful of Executives From Taiwan
December 19, 2021
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News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would not have likely secured its self-reliance in chipmaking without support from Taiwanese professionals, amid U.S.–China tech tensions. However, the recent exit of three influential Taiwanese executives from China’s largest chipmaker or its board of directors highlights a reality—that Beijing does not trust them and deems them as…
China Uses US Pork Import Issue to Try to Manipulate Taiwanese Referendum
December 18, 2021
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Taiwan’s four referendum results were released on Dec. 18. The majority voted no to all four issues including the ban of the imports of additive-fed pork from the United States, which was considered to possibly affect Taiwan–U.S. relations. Taiwanese organizations and experts called out the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for trying to manipulate public opinion…
US ‘Cannot Be Certain’ of Military Victory Against China: Report
December 18, 2021
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The United States cannot be assured of victory in the event of war with China, according to a new report by an influential U.S. congressional advisory body. The analysis by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) comes amid rising concerns that the United States could be drawn into a war over the future of…
US Could Lose East Asia If Taiwan Falls to China, Former US Diplomat Says
December 17, 2021
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Losing Taiwan to China would be a disaster for the United States, and Washington needs to do more for the self-ruled island’s defense, a former U.S. diplomat said. “If Taiwan falls into Chinese hands, Japan is totally isolated. It’s cut off. The [first] island chain is broken,” William Stanton recently told NTD, The Epoch Times’…
Will Taiwan Defend Itself From a Chinese Attack?
Commentary At last week’s global Summit on Democracy, Washington managed to offend both Taipei and Beijing in a rare instance of unity between the two. Of course, the reasons for the unity of criticism were quite different. Beijing views Taiwan as a renegade province of the homeland and not as an independent, democratic country. It…
Don’t Be Distracted by the Ukraine, the Main Event Is China
Commentary We’re barely re-learning what’s going on in the Ukraine and Neocon megaphone Republican Senator Roger Wicker has already charged to the ramparts and declared the need for nuclear strikes on Russia regarding the Ukraine border tensions with Russia. I’m not sure I ever have seen such a bellicose statement based on such little information…
Taiwan Seeks EU Trade Deal Progress Under the Bloc’s Incoming French Presidency
December 16, 2021
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Taiwan hopes for stronger trade ties with the European Union when France takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency in the first half of next year, President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting French lawmakers on Dec. 16. A six-member French delegation arrived in Taiwan on Dec. 15 for a five-day visit, the second one this year following a…
French MPs Arrive in Taiwan for Visit Amid China Tensions
December 15, 2021
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN—A group of six French lawmakers arrived in Taiwan for a five-day visit on Wednesday, following a similar trip led by a group of French parliamentarians in October that the Chinese regime sought to discourage. François de Rugy, the head of the Taiwan Friendship group in the National Assembly, the lower house of France’s…
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