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The agreement is aimed at facilitating collaboration in a number of key areas, including the design and production of semiconductors.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it had tracked 4 military aircraft and 3 Chinese warships around the country in the past 24 hours. The ministry said in a statement that no aircraft had crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait. The developments come two days after US President Joe Biden's administration for the first time approved direct military aid to Taiwan. Beijing has warned that delivering U.S. weapons to Taiwan would harm the "security" of the island, which China claims. The State Department informed Congress on Tuesday of an $80 million military aid package for Taiwan.
Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vibrating atoms carry enough heat to turn the material into a thermal switch when an electrical field is applied externally.