Taiwan Says China Behind Detention of Scholars in Kenya - June 17, 2026
The foreign ministry accuses China of having Taiwanese scholars detained and blocked from attending an academic conference in Kenya. Taiwan drives away more Chinese coast guard vessels from its waters while training drone operators to help boost monitoring of China's gray-zone activity. And weeks of intense rainfall have wrought over US$2 million of agricultural damage across Taiwan, and farmers are anxious with typhoon season just around the corner. Also in today's show: - A peace deal in the US-Iran war may ease constraints on global fuel supplies, but fallout from the war has already brought financial troubles to small businesses around the world. - The US appears to be holding off on blacklisting Chinese firms like DeepSeek despite national security concerns. - High levels of arsenic and heavy metals from unregulated mining in Myanmar may pose major dangers to people living downstream along the Mekong River.
