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Aerial panorama of the Singapore Strait and the Pasir Panjang container terminal
Singapore Strait and Pasir Panjang Port Terminal (2016)Photo: Bob Tan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized · Source

Asia-Pacific · event map· 6 items · 2 high importance

News · Myanmar's fight over its UN seat — 12/09Research · Competition among cross-border payment networks — 17/09 (+2)3News · Taiwan export orders — 22/09 (+1)2News · Taiwan chip equipment validation hub — 21/09News · Taiwan's chip cluster expansion — 17/09 (+1)2News · Japan's August trade data — 16/09 (+2)3News · North Korea–Russia alliance deepens — 15/09News · AI chip record in Korean exports — 11/09 (+1)2News · Attack on Myanmar junta's air power — 10/09News · Sanctions on Xinbi scam marketplace — 09/09News · Vietnam's balancing act among great powers — 09/09News · China's CXMT produces HBM3E — 03/09News · Pacific Islands Forum and great-power rivalry — 03/09News · China: exports +25%, retail +0.4% — 15/09Analysis · Chip and AI front before the summit — 15/09 (+1)2News · North Korean missile and drone salvo — 12/09News · Asia's response to Gulf energy shock — 03/09 (+1)2

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HighIII Conflict & Defence22 Sept

Xi will press for a halt to arms sales to Taiwan at the 24 September summit, invoking the 1982 communiqué

According to 3 sources who spoke to Reuters, Chinese leader Xi Jinping will ask Trump at the Washington summit on 24 September 2026 to halt arms sales to Taiwan and suspend deliveries of weapons already ordered. The basis is the third joint communiqué of 1982.

22 September 2026 · WASHINGTON

MediumV Tech & AI22 Sept

Taiwan's August export orders reach a record 102.96 billion dollars, up 71.4% year on year

MediumV Tech & AI21 Sept

Ground is broken on the 89-hectare Baipu chip park in Kaohsiung: 4,000 jobs and NT$300 billion a year

MediumV Tech & AI17 Sept

Taiwan is expanding Longtan Science Park by 104 hectares: NT$95.63 billion investment and 4,500 new jobs

MediumIV Macro & Debt17 Sept

Taiwan's central bank held its rate at 2.00% and raised its 2026 growth forecast from 9.45% to 11.48%

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22/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificTaiwan's August export orders reach a record 102.96 billion dollars, up 71.4% year on year22/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceAsia-PacificXi will press for a halt to arms sales to Taiwan at the 24 September summit, invoking the 1982 communiqué21/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificGround is broken on the 89-hectare Baipu chip park in Kaohsiung: 4,000 jobs and NT$300 billion a year17/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificTaiwan is expanding Longtan Science Park by 104 hectares: NT$95.63 billion investment and 4,500 new jobs17/09MediumIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificTaiwan's central bank held its rate at 2.00% and raised its 2026 growth forecast from 9.45% to 11.48%16/09MediumIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificJapan lifted exports by 19.3% in August, while imports up 28% took the trade deficit to 1.106 trillion yen16/09HighII Cyber & InfrastructureAsia-PacificTaiwan's digital minister in Washington: 2.6 million cyberattacks a day and a warning on AI-assisted attacks15/0905:00HighIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificChina's exports rise 25% in August while retail sales slow to 0.4%15/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsAsia-PacificIn his reply to Putin, Kim Jong-un pledges to expand cooperation with Russia comprehensively; Pyongyang opens its first road link to Russia15/09MediumIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificTakaichi to reshuffle LDP leadership on 16 September and cabinet on 17 September; finance, foreign and defence ministers expected to keep their posts13/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceAsia-PacificChinese military activity around Taiwan continues ahead of the summit; Taiwan unveils a record defence budget12/0923:20HighIII Conflict & DefenceAsia-PacificNorth Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles from Wonsan a day after the end of a joint US–South Korea–Japan exercise12/09LowI Geo-EconomicsAsia-PacificAhead of a UN Credentials Committee decision, Myanmar's government revokes the status of UN envoy Kyaw Moe Tun and declares him wanted for high treason11/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificSouth Korea's 1–10 September exports hit a record 34.97 billion dollars, up 82.6% on a chip boom10/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceAsia-PacificMyanmar resistance strikes Tada-U air base, which shares a runway with Mandalay Airport, with FPV drones; international flights halted for two days10/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificTSMC's August revenue hits a record 514.81 billion NT dollars, up 53.3% year on year on artificial intelligence demand09/09MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureAsia-PacificBlueMoon exploit kit: Chrome and Windows zero-day vulnerabilities spread rapidly among China-aligned groups09/09MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureAsia-PacificUS Treasury sanctions Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language illicit marketplace whose volume has reached 24 billion dollars09/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsAsia-PacificAfter highlighting energy and nuclear cooperation in Moscow, Vietnamese leader To Lam turns to preparing 29 deals in New York under the shadow of US tariffs08/09LowIII Conflict & DefenceAsia-PacificPhilippine Defence Secretary Teodoro handed a Chinese note rejecting the 2016 arbitral ruling on stage at a Seoul forum; Teodoro calls it bullying03/0912:35MediumIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificJapan's 30-year government bond auction draws an average yield of 4.079%03/09HighIV Macro & DebtAsia-PacificHormuz crisis forces Asia to bring oil and LNG stocks closer to home; Vietnam's reserves had fallen to 5–7 days at the start of the war03/09MediumV Tech & AIAsia-PacificChina's CXMT begins production of HBM3E high-bandwidth memory as its global DRAM share reaches 10%03/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsAsia-Pacific55th Pacific Islands Forum in Palau closes with a third of leaders absent, overshadowed by China–Taiwan tension01/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsAsia-PacificIndonesia hands coal, palm oil and ferroalloy exports to a state company and sets up a domestic exchange for nickel pricing