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Legislative Yuan leaders scheduled a closed-door briefing with the National Security Bureau after Kuomintang officials filed a criminal complaint over alleged Communist Party messaging in the party’s chairperson election.
Legislative leaders scheduled a closed-door briefing on alleged mainland interference in an upcoming Legislative Yuan chairperson election, inviting party whips and security officials.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers on a layered T-Dome air-defense concept hours after President Lai’s Double Ten speech, sketching radar tiers without releasing classified ranges.
President Lai Ching-te used the Double Ten address to pair domestic welfare pledges with a warning that Taiwan will not accept subordination, as Chinook helicopters flew ROC flags over a military parade outside the Presidential Office.
Assistant Secretary Michael DeSombre told CNBC in Singapore that deterrence and “substantial consequences” would block a Chinese move on Taiwan, even as Taipei watches rising gray-zone pressure.
Legislative Yuan caucuses on Oct. 8 named 16 standing-committee conveners, handing KMT lawmaker Hsu Chiao-hsin the defense gavel alongside DPP convener Wang Yi-chuan while TPP lawmaker Chen Gau-tzu shares the judiciary panel.
Nikkei Asia reports widening friction between KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun and Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen’s camp over defense spending and cross-strait messaging as local elections approach.
Taipei’s mayor said Songshan Airport land should become an AI industry park after Taoyuan’s third terminal expands, framing the move as a northern Taiwan tech corridor with central government buy-in still untested.
Kuomintang officials told Storm Media they accept Puma Shen’s momentum is real, pushing Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an into a high-turnout blue-green fight eight weeks before the local elections.
Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Hsu Chia-ching resigned Wednesday after opposition lawmakers accused her of misusing public funds on overseas travel, and Premier Cho Jung-tai accepted the departure as MOFA opened a fact-finding review.
The National Day preparatory committee released altitude and timing bands for Thunder Tiger flyovers after Sunday's dress rehearsal over the Presidential Office.
Taipei’s Mainland Affairs Council says Beijing’s pressure campaigns have touched at least 126 people and will push lawmakers to close gaps the cabinet says U.S. courts already treat as federal crimes.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers Monday on bottled-water procurement after legislators trimmed NT$400 million from resilience-budget hydration lines, pledging revised logistics without naming vendors.
Kuomintang lawmakers are combing Hualien reconstruction entries inside the rolling NT$607.6 billion supplemental bill while party leaders balance disaster aid for Hualien with scrutiny of duplicate land-compensation lines.
LGBTQ advocates marched on a Wanhua police station after officers cited public-decency rules during a Saturday operation at the long-running Commander D venue.
DPP legislator Lai Jui-lung and KMT legislator Ko Chih-en stepped up Kaohsiung mayoral campaigning Saturday as vice-presidential and TPP figures joined rival events ahead of the Nov. 28 nine-in-one vote.
Lawmakers traded draft amendments Saturday on offshore wind grid-connection fees ahead of a plenary week that could decide whether developers or Taipower Co. absorb substation upgrade costs tied to 2028 commissioning targets.
Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers attacked a Kuomintang proposal to let national referendums overturn Constitutional Court judgments except presidential impeachment rulings.
Premier Cho Jung-tai told lawmakers TSMC can expand overseas for market access but must keep leading-edge research and the bulk of advanced capacity on Taiwan soil.
Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party legislators voted down every nominee for the seventh Control Yuan term Tuesday, leaving Taiwan’s corruption watchdog empty two months after the prior panel’s term ended.
A recorded vote in the Legislative Yuan failed all 27 Control Yuan nominees, including proposed president Chen Yung-hsin, extending a two-month vacancy at Taiwan’s impeachment and audit body.
Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party legislators stayed out of the chamber during Premier Cho Jung-tai's slideshow budget plea, while Speaker Han Kuo-yu gave a thumbs-up from the rostrum.
Defense Minister Wellington Koo said Washington has shown goodwill over late deliveries of 66 F-16V fighters, but the contract carries no financial penalties and the first two jets remain in Hawaii awaiting a final handover date.
More than 40 civic groups plan an evening rally and march near the Legislative Yuan as the sixth session opens, pressing opposition lawmakers to clear a supplementary budget and restore confirmations for watchdog agencies.
KMT lawmakers listed a national school nutrition lunch law among forty priority bills as the Legislative Yuan’s sixth session opened Monday in Taipei, alongside farmer pension hikes and food-safety penalties.
President Lai Ching-te said a new southern development hub will pair local manufacturers with democratic partners as Beijing keeps pressure on the strait.
At a Sept. 26 Institute for National Policy Research forum, Chang Wu-ueh pointed past the podium fights to three clocks: arms notifications, transit stopovers and senior-level visits. In Taipei, the question is which one reaches the Legislative Yuan's agenda first.
Deputy Foreign Minister François Wu says Washington should move a pending US$14 billion arms package and keep backing Taiwan's self-defense, arguing the sale serves U.S. interests after a Trump–Xi summit where Xi reportedly pressed Trump on Taiwan.
Deputy Foreign Minister François Wu says the pending US$14 billion arms package serves U.S. security and technology interests, as Taipei tests Washington’s post-summit resolve against reported Xi pressure.
MOFA and MAC answered Xi Jinping's anti-independence remarks on Sep 25, restating that the ROC and PRC are not subordinate to each other and rebutting Beijing's post-war timeline, while the State Department said its Taiwan policy remains unchanged.
Taipei's foreign ministry said Friday that Xi Jinping's published summit remarks on the island's future distort the facts, insisting that only the people of Taiwan can decide, after Washington and Beijing left separate accounts of the meeting.
Taipei's readout of the Xi-Trump summit runs through one Chinese verb: Xinhua's call for Washington to "oppose" Taiwan independence, a formulation Taiwan's government has long said invents the very issue it claims to settle — and one that leaves the stalled $14 billion arms package and the 2027 defence budget as the tests that follow.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council scheduled a Wednesday evening briefing after the Trump–Xi summit first session so officials can explain how Taipei tracked readouts without changing the four-commitments framework or issuing surprise travel alerts.
The Legislative Yuan Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee scheduled submarine program line-item markup for Thursday, pairing opposition demands for variance bands with MND requests to release milestone tranches before October budget consolidation.