Taiwan

2022 - 9 - 22

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Taiwan plans for Ukraine-style back-up satellite Internet network ... (The Straits Times)

Taiwan will run a $25 million satellite Internet trial as part of its plans to build "digital resilience". Read more at straitstimes.com.

"The experience of Russia's invasion of Ukraine... And it is also harder to avoid collateral damage. "It helped us a lot, in many moments related to the blockade of our cities, towns, and related to the occupied territories," he told Wired magazine. "The Internet used in Taiwan relies heavily on undersea cables, so if (attackers) cut off all the cables, they would cut off all of the Internet there," Dr Lennon Chang, a cyber-security researcher at Monash University, told The Straits Times. [ the possibility of a Chinese invasion](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/china-invading-taiwan-is-distinct-threat-biden-aide-jake-sullivan-says) - is taking a leaf out of that handbook by setting up a similar back-up satellite Internet network. [Starlink satellite Internet service came to the rescue.](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/western-allies-expel-some-russian-banks-from-global-system-ukraine-vows-to-fight-on)

U.S. lawmakers pile pressure on big banks over China ties, Taiwan (Reuters)

Top U.S. bankers came under pressure from lawmakers on Wednesday to take a tougher stance on doing business with China amid growing tensions between ...

It is very important for the future of America that America maintains its financial supremacy just like anything else." JPMorgan's Dimon also warned the U.S. Responding to a question about the remarks by U.S. "It's a hypothetical question," Fraser said. When asked later by Republican Lance Gooden if she would condemn "ongoing human rights abuses in China," Fraser hesitated. Citigroup, which was the first U.S. side should strictly adhere to the One-China principle and the provisions in the three U.S.-China joint communiqués, earnestly and effectively implement the U.S. Last year it became the first foreign firm to fully own a securities venture in China. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei, China fired missiles into waters near the island, though its activities have since scaled back. During a hearing before the U.S. China has been carrying out military drills near Taiwan in recent weeks. Despite a bigger footprint, China is not yet a big profit centre for those banks.

3 major U.S. banks to exit China if Beijing faces sanctions for ... (Focus Taiwan News Channel)

Washington, Sept. 21 (CNA) The heads of three major American banks pledged in a congressional hearing on Wednesday that if China was slapped with sanctions ...

- Business President Joe Biden told host Scott Pelley that the U.S. that their institutions would follow the guidance of the U.S. Morgan Chase Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan, and CEO of Citigroup Jane Fraser all told lawmakers in a hearing held by the House Financial Service Committee in Washington, D.C. The Chairman and CEO of J.P. would defend Taiwan "if in fact there was an unprecedented attack."

Taiwan plans to end quarantine requirement for arrivals (The Washington Post)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is considering an end to its quarantine requirement for all arrivals in mid-October, the Central Epidemic Command Center said ...

Currently, arrivals are allowed to quarantine at home, and have to do so for three days starting after the day they arrive. Officials with the CECC in charge of the pandemic response announced they were planning to end quarantine and change it to seven days of self-health monitoring. Hong Kong leader John Lee has repeatedly stressed the need to balance controlling the spread of COVID-19 while reducing travel inconvenience.

Taiwan Tentatively Plans To End Quarantine For Int'l Arrivals On Oct ... (Forbes)

Citizens of the 14 nations with which Taiwan has diplomatic ties are also covered by the eased rules, CNA said, citing the Central Epidemic Command Center.

[list of the world's top publicly traded companies include Hon Hai Precision — the big supplier to Apple led by billionaire Terry Gou, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., or TSMC, which makes computer chips for Intel. Others among Taiwan's numerous Apple suppliers include Pegatron, Lite-On Technology, Inventec, Catcher Technology, Largan Precision and Compeq Manufacturing.](https://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/#country:Taiwan)list of the world's top publicly traded companies include Hon Hai Precision — the big supplier to Apple led by billionaire Terry Gou, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., or TSMC, which makes computer chips for Intel. Taiwan businesses that rank on the Forbes Global 2000 Taiwan this month is already resuming visa-free entry privileges for travelers from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand that had been suspended in connection with the pandemic. Quarantine will end on the condition that there is no escalation of the Covid-19 situation in Taiwan over the next three weeks, CNA said. The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan and British Chamber of Commerce in Taipei were said to welcome the decision.

Taiwan further eases COVID-related border controls (Xinhua)

TAIPEI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan will increase the number of inbound arrivals from 50,000 to 60,000 per week starting Sept. 29, as it further relaxes its ...

29, as it further relaxes its border restrictions related to COVID-19 prevention, according to an announcement from the island's disease monitoring agency on Thursday. The COVID-19 response measures will be further adjusted in due course depending on the epidemic situation, and it is expected that by October, inbound travelers will no longer be required to undergo home isolation, the agency noted. The weekly limit on the number of inbound arrivals has been gradually raised from 25,000 to 50,000 since June, while the pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirement for inbound arrivals was eliminated in August.

Taiwan to scrap Covid quarantine for travellers from October, lift ban ... (WION)

Taiwan will fully reopen its borders by ending mandatory Covid quarantine for arrivals next month, the government said Thursday. The island has largely kept ...

The island has largely kept its borders closed and implemented strict quarantine rules throughout the coronavirus pandemic, keeping infection numbers low at the expense of being internationally cut off. The island has largely kept its borders closed and implemented strict quarantine rules throughout the coronavirus pandemic, keeping infection numbers low at the expense of being internationally cut off "The whole world except China and Taiwan have opened up, and Taiwan has already been too slow and too late," said Robert Kao, an expert on tourism management and operations at Tainan University of Technology.