The US is trying to speed up arms shipments to Taiwan, according to the de facto ambassador to Taipei, comments likely to reassure officials in Taipei worried about the Trump administration pausing military aid for Ukraine.

In the absence of formal ties, Taiwan runs a de facto embassy in the United States. But the country's two biggest political parties also have separate representative offices in Washington D.C. TaiwanPlus spoke with both parties' representatives to the U.

Thousands of miles away from Kyiv, policy makers and analysts in Taiwan are wondering whether it will be the next casualty of the changing moods in Washington, and what they can do to avoid a similar outcome. Developments in the Ukraine-U.S. relationship ...

A longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan has—under Trump—begun to breed anxious uncertainty.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is hailing a planned $100 billion investment in the U.S. by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation as “a historic moment for U.S-Taiwan relations,” adding that the move is not the result of pressure imposed by the U.S. government.

Taiwan ranked as the US' seventh-largest trading partner last year, moving up one spot from the previous year, with two-way trade increasing by more than 24 percent year-on-year, an Executive Yuan trade report showed.

Taiwan plays a critical role in “non-red” supply chains, because it is trusted by democratic countries and has technology important to the semiconductor industry, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said on Saturday.

It was not immediately clear whether the $100 billion investment was in addition to the company’s previously announced investments of $65 billion in factories in Arizona.

Taiwan coast guard officials boarded a Chinese-owned freighter and detained its crew following the cargo ship’s suspected role in severing an undersea cable near one of Taiwan’s outlying islands, Taipei authorities said Tuesday.