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TOKYO -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is participating in a program in Japan to preserve groundwater resources by flooding unused paddy fields, amid concerns that its chip factories in Kumamoto prefecture could cause water shortages in the area.
Masahiro Matsumura is professor of international politics and national security at the faculty of law of St. Andrew's University in Osaka, and a Taiwan Fellow at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies in Taipei.
Each blame the other for the early morning incident at Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands.
In hindsight, wars often look as if they were inevitable. Tensions were building up. National ambitions were clashing. Mutual fears and suspicions were growing. Historical grievances were simmering.
In October 2023, damage to the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia knocked it out for six months. Suspicion quickly fell upon a Chinese-owned, Hong Kong-flagged container ship called the Newnew Polar Bear.
State intervention has made a comeback. States have, in one way or another, always intervened in markets to develop specific industries and push innovation. But there has been a renaissance since the 2010s, particularly with respect to industrial and trade policy.
When he was 27 years old, Bernard Meyer moved from the U.S. to Lithuania: the world's happiest country for young people.
SYDNEY -- So-called pre-bunking is the "most important tactic" in the online battle against fake news and propaganda as it can undermine disinformation campaigns before they have even kicked off, according to former Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang.