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President of Taiwan since 2024, leading cross-strait and defense policy amid tensions with China, including military spending and US tech ties.
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Taiwan has received the first two of 66 F-16 Block 70 jets it ordered from the US in 2019 for $7.76 billion, after a six-week stop in Hawaii. The other 64 are due by the end of 2026, on a schedule that has already slipped.
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The 15% tariff Taipei bought with $250bn of promised fab investment is a rate that gets re-quoted whenever Washington asks again, which makes the tariff line in a hardware bill of materials a political variable.
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The Han Kuang exercise closed with mines and barricades at a city crossroads, not on a beach. Anyone modelling Taiwan risk as a blockade should note whose assumptions changed.
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Economy minister Kung Ming-hsin put a $20 billion figure on Taiwanese investment in America and declined to say whose money it is, which is worth pricing against the $265 billion one company has already promised Arizona.
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The defence ministry would not say what it was testing, so the ground it chose becomes the record: an airport approach road, a subway ride to a fallback headquarters, and what that implies about the fight Taipei expects to have.
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A chip and AI export boom has reached the budget: a universal NT$10,000 payment, a record defence bill, and an opposition asking why last year's unconstitutional idea is now policy.
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A KMT-backed NT$236bn cash handout has cleared first reading over Executive Yuan objections. The AI boom is now a domestic political variable, and it prices differently from a chip cycle.
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