The Twin Cities Forum between Taipei and Shanghai is set to start in late December after a prolonged delay, and amid a backdrop of rising regional tensions. Several Taiwanese professional baseball players head to China's brand new league. And Nvidia's top-tier Blackwell chips have allegedly ended up China, being used in Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI language model. Plus:
- The US is putting out new visa rules, including combing through applicants' social media history before approval.
- Taiwan's Cabinet has proposed changes to an assisted reproduction law, but some surrogacy advocates say the changes still aren't inclusive enough.
- Taiwan has launched its first commercial hydrogen refueling station, marking a major step toward the nation's 2050 net-zero carbon emissions goal.