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Nov 6, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Erin HalePublished |Erin Hale

Taipei, Taiwan – Asia is bracing for a second Donald Trump presidency that is poised to inject unpredictability into the region’s relations with the United States, from casting doubt on longstanding alliances to threatening to upend trillions of dollars in trade. During his first term as president from 2016 to 2020, Trump, who scored a decisive victory against Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election, broke with many of the longstanding but unspoken rules of US foreign policy.

Nov 5, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Erin HalePublished |Erin Hale

Taipei, Taiwan – Asia is bracing for disruption should American voters return Donald Trump to the White House, with his plans for sweeping tariffs threatening to hobble the region’s export-driven growth. Trump, who ran neck-and-neck with Vice President Kamala Harris in polls before Tuesday’s presidential election in the United States, has pledged to impose tariffs of 60 percent or more on Chinese imports and tariffs of 10 to 20 percent on all other foreign goods.

Oct 28, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Erin HalePublished |Erin Hale

Taiwan’s semiconductor sector is watching the US election closely amid geopolitical rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Taipei, Taiwan – For engineers working in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, the past few years have been difficult. The United States’s efforts to curb the growing power of China, Taiwan’s neighbour, by cutting off its access to the most cutting-edge chips has put the island’s chip sector in the crosshairs of the world’s most consequential geopolitical rivalry.

Oct 25, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Erin HalePublished |Erin Hale

EXPLAINERCritics say changes to government oversight laws could pose a national security risk to Taiwan; supporters of reform disagree. Video Duration 02 minutes 03 seconds 02:03Taiwan’s constitutional court will rule today on whether controversial reforms of government oversight laws are constitutional.

Oct 21, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Erin HalePublished |Erin Hale

Southeast Asia is at risk of deepening its dependence on fossil fuels as it tries to meet surging demand for electricity, an environmental think tank has warned. The 10 nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met the entirety of the region’s 3.6 percent rise in electricity demand last year through fossil fuels, the United Kingdom-based think tank Ember said in a report released on Tuesday.