From Trump’s tariff-fueled ceasefire push in Southeast Asia to political deadlock in Taiwan, a deadly courthouse siege in Iran, and the massacre of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau State, the world feels like it’s teetering on a knife’s edge—and the blade’s getting sharper.

From there, the train slowed to a leisurely 20 miles per hour so that passengers could fully appreciate Taiwan's coast and shoreline views. Though nothing outside could compete with the moment a uniformed attendant arrived bearing a two-tiered, Tiffany-blue box filled with desserts, accompanied by a souvenir menu with pop-up paper cutouts.

Even though Coca-Cola was sold in both Japan and China before World War II, there’s no evidence of it entering the Taiwanese market. Tseng writes that the only mention of the drink was from a letter in 1911 noting the US Consulate in Taiwan’s order of 10 gallons of Coca-Cola from company headquarters in Atlanta.

Japan said Saturday that the country’s newly announced $550B investment package could be used to help finance semiconductor plants in the US.

Taiwan’s trade negotiators have arrived in the US for talks aimed at clinching a trade deal with President Donald Trump’s team and averting a threatened 32% tariff.

Steven Moya, a former Detroit Tigers outfielder now playing professionally in Taiwan, has suffered a devastating personal loss. Moya’s wife, Elizabeth Esmeralda, died suddenly while en route to Taiwan to watch him participate in the Chinese Professional Baseball League All-Star Game.

Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.