Military Practices Defense of Port of Taipei – June 23, 2026
Taiwan's military practices defending the Port of Taipei at the mouth of a key waterway near the capital as part of weeklong drills. With delays in US arms sales to Taiwan, experts weigh in on the state of Taipei-Washington ties. Meanwhile, one of Taiwan's major chip designers hikes its prices as supply costs rise. Plus: - Hualien residents are wary as a new barrier lake forms upstream ahead of an approaching typhoon. - Even with tests runs set at the Taipei Zoo, next year's larger rollout of self-driving buses in the capital seem to have hit a regulatory speedbump. - As China and the US enshrine quantum computing as national policy, can Taiwan catch up?
