Taiwan to discuss with US how to use new funding

TAIPEI, Taiwan —  Taiwan’s defense ministry said Sunday it will discuss with the United States how to use funding for the island included in a $95 billion legislative package mostly providing security assistance to Ukraine and Israel. The United States is Taiwan’s most important international supporter and arms supplier despite the absence of formal diplomatic […]

Taiwan Offers Lessons in How to Defeat Disinformation

WASHINGTON —  The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s closely watched presidential election were tallied on January 13. There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results. In a widely shared video, a woman recording votes mistakenly enters one in the […]

How to Bottom Fish for Chinese Stocks in 2024

Chinese stocks did badly in 2023. And in 2022. And in 2021. Will this year finally be the year for a sustained rebound? With China’s property sector woes unresolved, betting on the market as a whole still looks risky—even though shares, particularly in Hong Kong, are trading at phenomenally cheap valuations. But that doesn’t mean […]

Sen. Dan Sullivan on How to Deter a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

For the past three months I’ve been pressing my colleagues to significantly strengthen the weapons systems provided to Taiwan so it can prevail in a conflict in the Taiwan Strait (“How Joe Biden Can Deter China,” Review & Outlook, Nov. 18). The national security supplemental request that the White House sent to Congress in October […]