The generally law-abiding TSMC did not even submit the investment plan to Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs for assessment and approval, as it had previously done. In other words, the announcement was made unilaterally by the Trump administration.

The meeting comes as the White House said it is set to announce a more than $100 billion investment in the United States by a chipmaker from Taiwan, amid a push by Trump to encourage investments in American manufacturing.

A longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan has—under Trump—begun to breed anxious uncertainty.

The U.S. is Taiwan's ace in the hole as it faces China's threats, so does Trump's fickle foreign policy fuel concern, or does Taipei have "a better hand"?

President Donald Trump is scheduled on Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress, as his second administration moves to recast the federal government, implement "America First" policies and redefine U.S. support for Ukraine.

Trump announced the semiconductor manufacturing investment but did not say if it would provide security for Taiwan.

a Taiwan chipmaker, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Trump will announce the investment, which will occur over the next four years, in the Roosevelt Room on Monday ...

The events of Feb. 28, 2025, generated a sense of shock and dread that resonated with the reaction to Jan. 6, 2020 — a feeling that something terribly wrong and irreversible had just happened to

TSMC is on a slippery slope. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , the world's largest chipmaker, on Monday pledged $100 billion in fresh funds to build factories in the United States. It also committed to set up a major research and development centre stateside,

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and the CEO of Taiwan's largest chipmaker on Thursday held a joint news conference defending TSMC's decision to invest $100 billion in the U.S., saying that it stemmed from customer demand and not out of pressure from the Trump administration.

A Taiwan chipmaker is investing $100 billion over the next four years in the United States in a major expansion of the U.S. domestic semiconductor industry.