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President Xi Jinping on Thursday vowed to bring Taiwan under Chinese control, saying the "complete reunification" of the motherland is an "unwavering historical mission" for the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) and will certainly be achieved. Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a ceremony marking the 160th birth anniversary of Sun Yat-sen, one of China's nationalist leaders who is revered on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. He pledged to accommodate the island's realities but took a hard line against separatism. "Resolving the Taiwan question and realising the complete reunification of the motherland is an unwavering historical mission for the CPC, the shared aspiration of all Chinese people, and a natural requirement for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," Xi was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency. China views Taiwan as a rebel province that must be reunified
Typhoon Champi killed one person and injured hundreds in Taiwan, as well as downing trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people as the storm's strong winds and rains continued overnight Friday into Saturday morning. Although Champi did not hit Taiwan directly, the storm's span was large enough to impact most of Taiwan. The island's weather authorities said the storm was weakening Saturday morning and that by evening, the land warnings for the typhoon would be removed. Taiwan's Central Emergency Operations Centre reported that 350 were injured as of Friday night. The one death was a man who was washed away by waves in Taiwan's Pingtung county, the island's southernmost part. The storm knocked out power for 280,000 households, according to United Daily News, a local Taiwanese newspaper, citing the island's power authorities. But power had returned to 80 per cent of households by Saturday morning. Across the island, the storm downed trees and signs, some smaller .
Taiwan's defence minister said Tuesday that existing US arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, and that Taipei remains in talks with the US over individual deals. A record USD 14 billion arms package to the island, however, remains stalled. The minister's remarks come as concerns mount that President Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the USD 14 billion arms deal after that meeting. "As for arms sales, we are in continuous discussions with the Americans on this," Taiwan's Defence Minister Wellington Koo told reporters in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. "We haven't received any notice of any changes to sales or our cooperation." Koo said he received assurances from the US side that its policy towards the island remained unchanged. Koo also said that 66 advanced F16-V fighter jets have reached
Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another USD 100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The latest commitment appears to bring the company's total pledges for investment in US chipmaking to USD 265 billion. It also raised its annual revenue forecast after booking record high profits thanks to runaway demand from the boom in artificial intelligence. The world's largest contract chip manufacturing and one of the world's most valuable companies, TSMC's results are seen as a barometer for the global chip industry and for AI at a time when worries about a potential AI bubble have been buffeting financial markets. As AI-related demand continues to surge, it has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the US, Japan and Taiwan. It said it is increasing its annual capital expenditure budget for this year to USD 60 billion-USD 64 billion, up from an earlier estimate of USD 52 billion-USD 56 billion. TSMC or Taiwan ...