The two countries are considering using US tech to produce weapons in Taiwan, or producing the weapons in the United States using Taiwanese parts

The Tesla billionaire has argued that allowing Beijing a say in running the disputed island would reduce tensions

The head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said Xi will consolidate his power at the party congress – and that will spell trouble for the island nation

The chiefs of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security, and Raytheon Technologies, will be hit with sanctions after the latest US-Taiwan arms sale, China says

World's largest contract chipmaker TSMC is building a $12 billion semiconductor plant in US state of Arizona

US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation

Azis Armand, chief executive of Indika, Indonesia's third biggest coal producer, said a feasibility study for the proposed joint venture is being prepared

The US Senate this week gave its nod to a much-debated semiconductor bill that seeks to hand billions of dollars in sops for the computer chips industry

Nancy Pelosi's visit will be the first by a Speaker of the US House of Representatives in 25 years

"The disruption ... on the international economic order; and the chance to grow would be much, much (more) significant than this one," chief trade negotiator John Deng said

Beijing warns the US to handle its dealings with Taiwan prudently so as not to encourage separatists after Washington says it will launch new trade talks with Taipei

The alerts included messages such as "a war could break out", a train station in Taipei being set on fire and Taiwan's president declaring a state of emergency