The Taiwanese president said Tuesday that trade tensions between the United States and Taiwan are just “frictions between friends” in a show of optimism as tariff negotiations are underway with Washington.

The president of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, declared on Tuesday that he will pursue peace with China. However, this does not mean that Taiwan will stop arming itself. He assured that Taipei is ready for trade exchanges and cooperation with Beijing,

The US has recently imposed tariffs of 32% against Taiwan, as part of sweeping duties against all US trading partners. View on euronews

Taiwan’s president William Lai has marked his first year in office with an offer of dialogue to Beijing and a warning that the self-governing island must strengthen its defences. Mr Lai said he wanted co-operation, but it must be a dialogue of equals, free of coercion.

President Lai says Taiwan will continue to strengthen its defence as preparing for war is best way to avoid it

Taiwan's Lai one year into his presidency. May 20, 2025. Taiwan wants peace and dialogue with China as "war has no winners", but the g

Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Tuesday an artificial intelligence centre it has announced with Nvidia will be built in phases and is targeted to have 100 megawatts of power.

Nvidia is planning to build Taiwan’s first AI supercomputer while deepening partnerships with local heavyweights Foxconn and TSMC.

NVIDIA and Foxconn have teamed up to build what they are calling an AI factory supercomputer in Taiwan. The project, which NVIDIA announced at Computex, will "deliver state-of-the-art NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure to researchers,