Central Taiwan Drills Earthquake-Invasion Scenario – July 3, 2026
Nantou in central Taiwan has held a closed-door drill simulating a scenario in which a devastating earthquake is used by China as an opportunity to invade. Hawaii State Representative Adrian Tam discusses this year's RIMPAC naval exercises and his state's longstanding ties with Taiwan. And Uber's motorbike-taxi service in Taipei's Beitou district has hit a speedbump. Plus: - US President Donald Trump says the US will retake the global lead in semiconductor production. - Lam Wing-Kee, an exiled Hong Kong bookstore owner whose shop sold books critical of the Chinese Communist Party, has died in Taipei at age 70. - Farmers in southern Taiwan find a way to get out of the sour pickle of brine waste.
