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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei joins a press conference with President Donald Trump n the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump a $100 billion ‘protection fee’

C.C. Wei, Chairman and CEO of TSMC, attends the ceremony for Taiwanese chip maker TSMC's first European plant in Dresden, Germany, on August 20, 2024. Wei is set to meet with President Donald Trump on Monday.

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Trump announces Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $100 billion in US manufacturing

Chang Hsien-yi, one of Taiwan's most senior nuclear engineers, was an informant for the CIA.

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How a CIA informant stopped Taiwan from developing nuclear weapons

A Taiwanese in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2023.

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Taiwan says China set up ‘live-fire training’ zone off its coast without warning

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Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed ship suspected of cutting undersea cable

A shopper browses stoves inside a Best Buy store on Black Friday in Union City, California, US, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023.

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A Chinese military helicopter flies close to a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic aircraft, above Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

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US calls out ‘dangerous’ Chinese helicopter maneuvers as tensions rise over South China Sea

The Taiwanese flag, right, and the American flag in Taipei, Taiwan, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. A delegation of US lawmakers led by Republican Mike Gallagher arrived in Taiwan, a visit that may exacerbate an already fraught relationship between the island and China. Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Change to State Department website sparks fiery rebuke from Beijing over Taiwanese independence

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives for a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Biden spent four years building up US alliances in Asia. Will they survive Trump’s next term?

Dec 30, 2024

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and US President Jimmy Carter sign an agreement for cooperation between China and the United States on science and technology in Washington DC in January 1979.

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‘An old friend’: Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered in China for establishing diplomatic ties

Dec 30, 2024

A Taiwanese flag flies at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on October 15, 2024.

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Taiwan’s presidential office runs first ‘tabletop’ simulation of Chinese military escalation

Dec 27, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump photographed in Brownsville, Texas, on November 19, 2024.

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From defense to chips, Trump keeps Taiwan guessing

Dec 15, 2024

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Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind shakes hands with Taiwan's outgoing leader Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan on May 15, 2024.

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Photo taken in Hualien, eastern Taiwan, on April 5, 2024, shows fallen rocks on a road leading to Taroko National Park, following a powerful earthquake on April 3. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

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