U.S. President Donald Trump has departed for a high-stakes Asia tour, set to meet China’s Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea. Ahead of the meeting, Trump dropped a major ...

What makes a passport “powerful”? Well, a clear measure is travel openness, the ability to slip into destinations around the world with a breezy wave of your passport, no visa required. The Henley ...

The US Senate has approved its defence policy bill for the 2026 financial year, which for the first time "strongly encourages" inviting Taiwan's navy to take part in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration will not abandon long-standing US support for Taiwan in negotiations with China to reach a trade agreement. “If what people are worried ...

The world’s most powerful passport has been revealed in a quarterly ranking — and sadly, it’s not the United States. The Henley Passport Index ranks all the world’s passports according to the number ...

Last week, the US Senate passed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which included several types of support for Taiwan. TaiwanPlus spoke to Liu Fu-kuo from National Chengchi ...

US manufacturing may now be at its most vulnerable after decades of ceding crucial mining and production activities to China in the pursuit of low costs and higher company profits, and robust ...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in more than a year, extending a recent trend that’s helped give lagging U.S. home sales a boost. The average long-term ...