• Taiwan would also be referred to as "Chinese Taipei" in the ceremonies as part of Beijing's campaign to denigrate the nation on the international stage, they added. (taipeitimes.com)
  • The nation's intelligence community has said that Beijing intends to display pro-unification messages, refer to Taiwan as "Chinese Taipei" and prominently feature Taiwanese volunteers in its propaganda videos, the official said. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has signed a contract to purchase 100 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder tactical missiles and related components worth NT$2.394 billion (US$78.63 million) from the United States that are expected to be fully delivered by 2030, according to a military source on Wednesday. (focustaiwan.tw)
  • In Taipei, Chiu Chui-cheng, deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, said the government would never encourage anyone to risk their personal safety to arrive in Taiwan illegally, and warned those involved would face criminal liability. (scmp.com)
  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is a main referral hospital for cities in northern Taiwan, including Taipei, New Taipei, and Taoyuan. (cdc.gov)
  • The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung, the largest metropolitan area in Taiwan. (appropedia.org)
  • TAIPEI - Chinese missiles flying over Taiwan and naval drills in the Strait in August that simulated a blockade by China have jolted the semiconductor industry into contemplating what once seemed a remote possibility: war over the major chip-producing island. (zawya.com)
  • While Taiwan has lived under the Chinese threat for decades, with occasional spikes in tensions, the war games in early August following the visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei rattled nerves, said the executives, who asked for themselves and their companies not to be identified due to concerns over relations with China. (zawya.com)
  • An airport staff holds up information boards regarding passenger health declaration and home quarantine information, a mandatory form to fill in once passengers land in Taiwan at Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan July 2, 2020. (cnbc.com)
  • Taiwanese wait in line at a pharmacy to pick up masks, which are pre-ordered online on March 18, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan. (cnbc.com)
  • The PRC considers Taiwan its sovereign territory and has long discouraged other countries from engaging in official diplomacy with Taipei. (flightglobal.com)
  • The Trump administration broadened contact guidelines for U.S. officials to engage with Taipei and argued that a broadened partnership with Taiwan could be an additional element of American power and purpose in the Pacific. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • While a BTA with Taipei is certainly desirable, it is hardly the only way to enhance U.S.-Taiwan economic relations. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • Often lost in the busy hum of today's Taipei, this is the time of year when these buildings reverberate with violent echoes from 70 years ago, when Taiwan 's modern identity was born. (hnn.us)
  • Four years ago he created the acclaimed Taiwan Pavilion (臺灣館), part of the Global Garden Area (寰宇 庭園) in the Fine Arts Park Area (美術公園區) of the Taipei International Flora Exposition (臺北國際花卉博 (tidf.org.tw)
  • China is planning to ramp up large-scale military drills around the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which began as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taipei for a visit that has angered Beijing. (aljazeera.com)
  • Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take control of Taiwan and has increased military activity near the island in recent years, claiming the moves are a response to what it calls "collusion" between Taipei and Washington. (aljazeera.com)
  • In mid-January 2020, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) dispatched experts to Wuhan to gain a better understanding of the epidemic. (memri.org)
  • [1] Cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-viBOuw?typeid=158, April 11, 2020. (memri.org)
  • Taiwanese officials are poised to boycott next month's Beijing Winter Olympics, an official with knowledge of the matter said yesterday, citing concerns that China would slight Taiwan during the Games. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Taiwanese athletes would precede athletes from Hong Kong, which is intended to give credence to Beijing's claims that Taiwan is Chinese territory, they said. (taipeitimes.com)
  • The Taiwan independence movement is a political movement which advocates the formal declaration of an independent and sovereign Taiwanese state, as opposed to Chinese unification or the status quo in Cross-Strait relations. (wikipedia.org)
  • If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Taiwanese state or to the notion that Taiwan has become synonymous with the current Republic of China and is already independent (as reflected in the concept of One Country on Each Side). (wikipedia.org)
  • The governments of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) oppose Taiwanese independence since they believe that Taiwan and mainland China comprise two portions of a single country's territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Taiwanese media reports suggest that because the airline's name had "China" in it, it would lead to confusion as to whether these donations came from the People's Republic of China, or Taiwan. (flightglobal.com)
  • In February, as the pandemic grew in magnitude, the Taiwanese American Senior Society - East Bay & Washington DC launched a petition urging the Taiwanese authorities to change its name to Taiwan Airlines. (flightglobal.com)
  • In the 17th century, large-scale Han Chinese immigration to western Taiwan began under a Dutch colony and continued under the Kingdom of Tungning, the first predominantly Han Chinese state in Taiwanese history. (appropedia.org)
  • Yet as for Taiwan, known as the hub of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, there has been no Wikipedia edition in Taiwanese aboriginal languages. (wikimedia.org)
  • The declining ability of individuals in Taiwan to speak Taiwanese is a topic that I've often touched upon in previous posts. (upenn.edu)
  • Wang Yu-chi of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), which oversees the island's China policy, met with his mainland Chinese counterpart Zhang Zhijun, of China's Taiwan Affairs Office. (cnn.com)
  • China's Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to a request for comment. (cnn.com)
  • The task force, created by the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Education and the Mainland Affairs Council, was concerned that the presence of a delegation would give legitimacy to diplomatic slights that Beijing is sure to make against Taiwan, the official said. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Sources from both the mainland and Hong Kong police confirmed on Thursday that Andy Li was the Li referred to. (scmp.com)
  • Some supporters advocate the exclusion of Kinmen and Matsu, which are controlled by Taiwan but are located off the coast of mainland China. (wikipedia.org)
  • Taiwan independence is supported by the Pan-Green Coalition in Taiwan but opposed by the Pan-Blue Coalition, which seeks to retain the somewhat ambiguous status quo of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the so-called "1992 Consensus" or gradually "reunify" with mainland China at some point. (wikipedia.org)
  • The immediate resumption of the Chinese Civil War resulted in the loss of the Chinese mainland to Communist forces, who established the People's Republic of China and the flight of the ROC central government to Taiwan in 1949. (appropedia.org)
  • Activities to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sun Yat-sen, a great forerunner of China's democratic revolution, were held by the mainland-based China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, with students from both Chinese mainland and Taiwan attending. (xinhuanet.com)
  • And the growing aversion in many economies, including but not limited to the United States, to China-origin artificial intelligence-enabled products and other software applications has made Taiwan a potentially attractive substitute for products designed or manufactured in mainland China. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to reunify Taiwan with the mainland. (aljazeera.com)
  • Published Date : Feb 2002 Source : Emerg Infect Dis. (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, observers have raised fears about the future of TSMC and its production if China invades Taiwan, especially after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with TSMC chairman Mark Liu during her visit to Taiwan last week. (ibtimes.com)
  • The People's Republic of China (PRC) sent nearly 70 military aircraft into the Strait of Taiwan on 5 August, part of aggressive, live-fire military exercises China is conducting in the region. (flightglobal.com)
  • Defence officials in Taiwan, the self-governing island that refers to itself as the Republic of China (ROC), reported the sorties and say via Twitter that 49 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft crossed the so-called median line of the strait, which serves as an unofficial boundary. (flightglobal.com)
  • The recent coercion from [the] PRC's drills around us aimed to change the status quo of [the] Taiwan Strait, violated our sovereignty, and caused tension in the Indo-Pacific region," the ROC Ministry of National Defence (MND) says in a tweet. (flightglobal.com)
  • Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence says China sent nearly 70 military aircraft into the Strait of Taiwan on 5 August. (flightglobal.com)
  • China routinely sends military aircraft into the Strait of Taiwan, but such events have become increasingly common in recent months according to MND figures. (flightglobal.com)
  • According to China's state-owned Global Times, the Chinese air force sent warplanes to the Taiwan Strait on at least 25 days out of the total 31 days in October, setting a new record for frequency this year. (aljazeera.com)
  • PRC [People's Republic of China] announcing air-naval live-fire drills around Taiwan is self-evidently apparent that they seek a cross-strait resolution by force instead of peaceful means," Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense wrote on Twitter. (aljazeera.com)
  • Maps of the drills produced by China show they go far beyond the missile firings in the straits in 1996 when Beijing protested against the island's first direct presidential election in what became known as the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. (aljazeera.com)
  • Salmonella enterica serotype Anatum infection and antimicrobial resistance, Taiwan. (cdc.gov)
  • The body of the structure was made with high- strength, high-tensility bamboo - 4,000 staves of makino and moso bamboo sourced from Meishan Township (梅山鄉) in Chiayi County (嘉義縣). (tidf.org.tw)
  • The Taiwan Primary Sources Project seeks to make learning about Taiwan's history easier and more accessible for both educators and students by organizing in one central website important documents related to Taiwan's international relations, public health, education, politics, etc. (washington.edu)
  • On 23 July 2007, Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon rejected Taiwan's fifteenth membership bid to "join the UN under the name of Taiwan", citing Resolution 2758 as acknowledging that Taiwan is part of China in accordance to the 1971 resolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the forefront of Taiwan's digital movement is the unique, open-source community called g0v. (appropedia.org)
  • In a statement, Taiwan's MAC said that Wang had invited Zhang to visit Taiwan to better understand society and popular sentiment. (cnn.com)
  • Taiwan has long battled against what it says is a sustained espionage campaign run by Beijing to undermine Taiwan's armed forces and sow dissent in the ranks. (cnn.com)
  • Medical Taiwan, hosted by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) annually in June, gathers Taiwan's top-notch medical device suppliers and smart healthcare companies. (medicaldesignsourcing.com)
  • China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province which it has vowed to retake, by force if necessary. (flightglobal.com)
  • Beijing considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has never ruled out the use of force to achieve reunification. (cnn.com)
  • Forty percent of respondents polled by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan the week after Pelosi's visit said their companies were revising or about to revise their crisis contingency or continuity of operations plans in Taiwan. (zawya.com)
  • However, following Pelosi's visit, 'customers in the Western world expressed their concerns about being too concentrated in Taiwan', Hou said: 'There's no immediate action requested by their Western clients, but some discussion is already underway. (zawya.com)
  • One foreign chip executive with factories outside of Taiwan said more companies contacted him after Pelosi's visit to discuss options, but those meetings have not yet translated into new orders. (zawya.com)
  • In fact, China has successfully blocked Taiwan from joining the WHO - since China considers Taiwan part of its territory - and has also forced the UN to confirm its position. (memri.org)
  • The drones deal, first reported in mid-October , is the latest in a series of sales of military equipment and weapons sales to Taiwan worth about $4.2bn, which have included Harpoon anti-ship missiles, air-launched SLAM-ER cruise missiles, and mobile light rocket launchers. (aljazeera.com)
  • It was understood that at least one of the others on the boat had been arrested in Hong Kong over the months-long social unrest that broke out in June last year, and those on board were believed to be fleeing to Taiwan. (scmp.com)
  • Police sources had accused Li of being a suspected key member of an online group named "Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong" (SWHK), which they said had continued to call for international sanctions after the legislation took effect. (scmp.com)
  • The Chinese government's refusal to grant access to these journalists reflects two important trends - the Communist Party's expansion of its tactics for influencing media from Hong Kong to Taiwan, and the government's use of visa denials as a way to punish overseas news outlets for critical coverage," said Sarah Cook, senior research analyst at Freedom House. (cnn.com)
  • Many supporters of independence for Taiwan view the history of Taiwan since the 17th century as a continuous struggle for independence and use it as an inspiration for the current political movement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pelosi is the first sitting speaker of the house to travel to Taiwan in 25 years and Beijing has threatened "serious consequences" over her visit to the island, which China claims as its own. (aljazeera.com)
  • That helped limit the spread of Covid-19, and Taiwan now has one of the lowest coronavirus death counts in the world. (cnbc.com)
  • Taiwan and China held their highest level talks for more than six decades Tuesday, marking the first government-to-government contact since the pair's acrimonious split in 1949. (cnn.com)
  • The meeting took place in Nanjing, which was the seat of government under the Kuomintang or Nationalist party before a civil war with the Chinese Communists forced Nationalist forces to flee to Taiwan in 1949. (cnn.com)
  • Currently there are nine national parks in Taiwan, all under the administration of the Ministry of the Interior. (appropedia.org)
  • Regarding "Taiwan Indigenous Languages Wikipedia Program", entrusted by the Ministry of Education in December, 2014, process of building up Taiwan indigenous languages, such as inviting language users, organizing workshops, participating in an official annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation and the challenges of translating the interface will be shared in the conference. (wikimedia.org)
  • China strongly urges the US side to immediately withdraw plans of arms sales to Taiwan, cease US-Taiwan military contacts and stop selling weapons to the island," China's Ministry of National Defense said on October 27 after those sales were announced. (aljazeera.com)
  • Unsettled by the Chinese drills, which showed how easily Taiwan could be blockaded, management had launched efforts to plan for disruption in supplies and other scenarios, he said: 'I don't think anybody believes the political environment is going to get any better. (zawya.com)
  • The drills were launched following the visit of a high-ranking US official to Taiwan on 2 August. (flightglobal.com)
  • Taiwan said on Wednesday that the drills violated United Nations rules, invaded its territorial space and amounted to a blockade of its air and sea. (aljazeera.com)
  • Tensions between China and Taiwan have raised concerns about the possible delay of Apple 's next-generation iPhone 14 as the technology company relies greatly on chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest chipmaker. (ibtimes.com)
  • From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! (wikinews.org)
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  • 3 Headquartered in Rome, ANSA, whose members and owners are leading news organizations, has a mission to give readers access to news reporting with traceable, transparent sources. (ey.com)
  • Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said the visit had " extraordinary significance," according to the island's Central News Agency. (cnn.com)
  • On December 31, 2019, Taiwan sent an email to the WHO's International Health Regulations Focal Point informing the WHO about its understanding of the disease. (memri.org)
  • On December 31, 2019, Taiwan sent an email to the International Health Regulations (IHR) focal point under the World Health Organization (WHO), informing WHO of its understanding of the disease and also requesting further information from WHO. (memri.org)
  • The State Department's formal notification gives the US Congress 30 days to object, but that is unlikely given the broad bipartisan support in Washington for the defence of Taiwan. (aljazeera.com)
  • The Winter Games is the most significant platform for China to push its propaganda that Taiwan is a part of its sovereign territory, they said. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Japan would renounce sovereignty over Taiwan in 1952. (appropedia.org)
  • An ongoing outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Anatum began in Taiwan in 2015. (cdc.gov)
  • The infections were also reported in central Taiwan, indicating that this outbreak had already prevailed throughout the entire island ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • 2. Owing to its experience with the SARS epidemic in 2003, Taiwan vigilantly kept track of information about the new outbreak. (memri.org)
  • To investigate a measles outbreak that spread to Japan and Taiwan, China during March-May 2018, exploring the characteristics of the super-spreading event. (who.int)
  • The present study aims to investigate a cross-border outbreak of measles that spread to Japan and Taiwan, China and describe the dynamics of disease transmission in this outbreak. (who.int)
  • The present study is based on governmental reports of the outbreak investigations in Japan and Taiwan, China. (who.int)
  • Little information exists on the status of A, H7N9, virus in wild birds to assess their potential as sources of human infection and dissemination of the virus to new areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Taiwan produces the vast majority of the world's most advanced chips and is home to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker and supplier to major companies like Apple Inc , U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp and chip designer Qualcomm Inc. (zawya.com)
  • According to this view, the people indigenous to Taiwan and those who have taken up residence there have been repeatedly occupied by groups including the Dutch, the Spanish, the Ming, Koxinga and the Ming loyalists, the Qing, the Japanese and finally the Chinese Nationalists led by the Kuomintang. (wikipedia.org)
  • Increased suspicion of Made in China advanced technology products has led some U.S. firms to view Taiwan as a secure and trusted partner . (carnegieendowment.org)
  • To view changes that have been made to the source record, or for additional information about this trial, click on the URL below to go to the source record in the primary register. (who.int)
  • But everything started changing after the government of Taiwan - Republic of China, exited the United Nations following the industrialization and the appreciation of New Taiwan Dollar in the 1970s. (steepster.com)
  • Since the 1970s, the process of "brain circulation" of Taiwan-born, U.S.-educated and -trained engineers and entrepreneurs with close ties to, and ongoing relationships with, the valley and other U.S. innovation hubs has driven a wave of entrepreneurial growth in semiconductors, personal computers, and other hardware-related industries. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • China currently claims it is a province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), whereas the current Tsai Ing-wen administration of Taiwan maintains that Taiwan is already an independent country as the Republic of China (ROC) and thus does not have to push for any sort of formal independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the end of World War II in 1945, by issuing "General Order No. 1" to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, the Allies agreed that the Republic of China Army under the Kuomintang would "temporarily occupy Taiwan, on behalf of the Allied forces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Apple is also TSMC's top customer , according to the outlet, and China's new regulations that ban the mention of "Republic of China" or "Taiwan" in shipping documents could put a strain on the deliveries of some crucial products necessary for the production of the iPhone 14, which could then delay the new iPhone's launch. (ibtimes.com)
  • Taiwan , officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), is a country in East Asia. (appropedia.org)
  • Taiwan also calls itself the Republic of China. (cnn.com)
  • Some say the presence of chipmakers provides Taiwan with a 'silicon shield' - making China less likely to attempt to take the island by force and the United States reluctant to allow it to fall into Chinese hands. (zawya.com)
  • Prosecutors in Taiwan said on Tuesday they had charged a senior military officer with corruption and harming state security after they said he took bribes from a Chinese agent to act as a spy and even signed a letter promising to surrender to China . (cnn.com)
  • 3. The Taiwan CDC also contacted the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a bid to obtain more information. (memri.org)
  • On 23 March 2018, the Japanese Government was notified of an imported case of measles in Okinawa prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan, arising from a Taiwan Chinese traveller. (who.int)
  • One chip executive at a large foreign firm with operations in Taiwan said his company was asked about its business continuity plans by its customers and had in turn asked their suppliers in Taiwan the same questions. (zawya.com)
  • The exclusion of two Taiwan reporters from covering the meeting has soured the start of Wang's historic visit, which is expected to last until Friday. (cnn.com)
  • A high percentage of the Vietnamese in Taiwan are female domestic workers, or they work in factories. (joshuaproject.net)
  • The effective jurisdiction of the ROC has since been limited to Taiwan, Penghu, and smaller islands. (appropedia.org)
  • National parks of Taiwan are protected spaces for the nature, wildlife, and history under their current jurisdiction. (appropedia.org)
  • The use of "independence" for Taiwan can be ambiguous. (wikipedia.org)
  • Taiwan Independence supporters compared Taiwan under Kuomintang rule to South Africa under apartheid. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Taiwan independence movement under Japan was supported by Mao Zedong in the 1930s as a means of freeing Taiwan from Japanese rule. (wikipedia.org)
  • The modern-day political movement for Taiwan independence dates back to the Japanese colonial period, but it only became a viable political force within Taiwan in the 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several pro-independence lawmakers in Taiwan have backed calls to rename China Airlines, according to media reports. (flightglobal.com)
  • The military exercises are a "stern deterrence" against the United States over Taiwan, and a "serious warning" for supporters of Taiwan independence, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, a spokesman at the PLA Eastern Theater Command, said in a statement, according to the Global Times. (aljazeera.com)
  • Taiwan has been excluded from the World Health Organization because China claims Taiwan as its province with no right to its own diplomatic representation on the global stage and in international organizations. (cnbc.com)
  • Based on preliminary research, Taiwan determined that this form of pneumonia could spread via human-to-human transmission. (memri.org)
  • However, because at the time there were as yet no cases of the disease in Taiwan, we could not state directly and conclusively that there had been human-to-human transmission. (memri.org)
  • 4. Even though Taiwan strongly suspected that human-to-human transmission of the disease was already occurring at the time, we were unable to gain confirmation through existing channels. (memri.org)
  • Therefore, on the day the aforementioned email was sent to WHO, the Taiwan government activated enhanced border control and quarantine measures based on the assumption that human-to-human transmission was in fact occurring. (memri.org)
  • Subsequent chains of transmission were observed in highly vaccinated populations in both Japan and Taiwan, China. (who.int)
  • moreover, there have been chains of transmission arising from the same index case in Taiwan, China. (who.int)
  • Taiwan, in effect, discovered Silicon Valley decades before the rest of the world did. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • While Taiwan has for decades fallen back on US security guarantees, Washington has urged it to strengthen its own military capabilities. (aljazeera.com)
  • A single index case gave rise to a total of 38 secondary cases, 33 in Japan and five in Taiwan, China. (who.int)
  • Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age. (wikinews.org)
  • NOTE: The information regarding Taiwan on this page is re-published from other sources. (theodora.com)
  • Civil aviation regulators in Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand have since urged their carriers to avoid the airspace around Taiwan during the 4 August to 7 August period specified in China's notice of the exercises. (flightglobal.com)
  • Executives from NBA Asia, Microsoft Taiwan, and Catwalk Production Studio. (wikinews.org)
  • As such, the ROC consisting of Taiwan and other islands under its control already conducts official diplomatic relations with and is recognized by 12 member states of the United Nations and the Holy See. (wikipedia.org)
  • That marks a change in policy from late January, when Taiwan ramped up travel restrictions and set up a home quarantine system using geofencing technology. (cnbc.com)
  • As in other countries, salmonellosis was primarily caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Enteritidis and Typhimurium in Taiwan ( 1 ), but rare serovars such as Salmonella Goldcoast have appeared in recent years ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • On August 2 , Pelosi sneaked into Taiwan , becoming the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to visit the island in 25 years. (prweb.com)
  • Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. (appropedia.org)
  • Taiwan had a plan in place for years, which involved quarantines, contact tracing and wide availability of masks, among other things. (cnbc.com)
  • For the last four years, but especially in the last two, former president Donald Trump and his administration settled on collaboration with Taiwan as a fulcrum of U.S.-China competition. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • Over the same period, Taiwan had a per person growth rate of 5.62% during its own growth years. (lu.se)
  • Wild birds are recorded as the predominant source of H7N9 sequences, but this may be an outcome of sampling bias. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1950, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person in Taiwan was only about an eighth of Venezuela's. (lu.se)
  • For its part, the United States benefits from robust economic ties with Taiwan-Asia's seventh- largest economy , America's tenth-largest trading partner in goods, and an important link in global high-technology supply chains because of its best-in-class semiconductor design and fabrication companies. (carnegieendowment.org)
  • Sources of cardioembolic embolism include valvular diseases, left ventricular and atrial thrombi, cardiac tumors, and paradoxical emboli, as well as other sources. (medscape.com)
  • national security law was among a group of about 10 Hongkongers caught by the China Coast Guard while fleeing to Taiwan, sources have confirmed. (scmp.com)
  • Everyone is currently talking about business continuity plans,' said Terry Tsao, president of the SEMI Taiwan industry group. (zawya.com)
  • Furious over the U.S. House speaker's visit to Taiwan this week, China says it is suspending talks with the United States on several issues. (voanews.com)