US President Donald Trump announces Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 AI chips to China. Beijing’s use of World War II-era documents to exert claim over Taiwan draws a sharp rebuttal from Taipei. And Taiwan-US drone cooperation takes a major step forward after Congress includes it in the US's latest defense policy bill. Plus:
- A 7.5-magnitude quake off northern Japan triggered tsunamis along its coast, injured at least 30 people, and prompted warnings of a possible megaquake.
- Australia and the US pledge deeper cooperation with Japan as Canberra commits an additional US$1 billion to boost submarine production and strengthen Indo-Pacific security ties.
- TaiwanPlus speaks with an architecture professor from Taipei’s Shih Chien University and his students about their decade-long mission to build monsoon-resistant schools in rural Cambodia.