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North Korea could well test a nuclear weapon this year - or decide against it. We reached out to top experts to analyze what could happen.

Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan trip was about shoring up her legacy, not actually doing anything to check China’s rise.

To what extent will Beijing continue to back Russia against Ukraine?

On the front line of the superpower struggle between the US and China, Taiwan has fashioned a defensive masterstroke: It has become indispensable to both sides. In dominating the fabrication of the world’s most advanced semiconductors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has captured a technology that is crucial to the cutting-edge digital devices and weapons of today and tomorrow. TSMC accounts for more than 90 percent of global output of these chips, according to industry estimates....

The foundries are so valuable to the global economy that some refer to Taiwan's chip sector as a "silicon shield" that deters a Chinese attack and ensures American support.

The US and Chinese economies are extremely reliant on Taiwan's advanced chip plants that would be in the line of fire in an attack

The foundries are so valuable to the global economy that some refer to Taiwan's chip sector as a "silicon shield" that deters a Chinese attack and ensures American support.

Both superpowers now find themselves deeply dependent on the small island at the centre of their increasingly tense rivalry.

On the front line of the superpower struggle between the United States and China, Taiwan has fashioned a defensive masterstroke. It has become indispensable to both sides. In dominating the fabrication of the most advanced semiconductors, the giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC) has captured a technology that's crucial to the cutting-edge digital devices