Quick Glance: War between China and Taiwan would be disastrous for semiconductors.
- Should China actually strike Taiwan's chip stronghold, the global economy would face disaster.
- Because of this reliance, Addison believed, as do some experts now, that China would not attack Taiwan.
- However, the American research firm IC Insights recently came to the opposite conclusion: China may invade Taiwan precisely because of its chip sector.
- However, worldwide reliance on Taiwan is unlikely to wane, if only because TSMC will continue to operate the majority of its operations in Taiwan and make its best chips there.
Quick Glance: Missiles fired in Chinese drills hit the seas bordering Taiwan and Japan.
- China has deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles in its largest-ever drills in the Taiwan Strait, which began at noon on Thursday and will end at noon on Sunday, expressing its displeasure with Mrs Pelosi's travel to the self-ruled island.
- Responding to popular anxiety that China's missiles had passed over Taiwan's main island, Taiwan's Defense Ministry stated that the missiles had flown high into the sky and posed no threat.
- Due to intelligence considerations, the ministry stated that it would not reveal the flight route of the Chinese missiles.
- Earlier, it was reported that 11 Chinese Dongfeng ballistic missiles were fired in the waters surrounding the island.
Quick Glance: Sri Lanka's President and Prime Minister to Resign Following Protests
- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe indicated he will stand down once a new administration is formed, while President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced his resignation hours afterwards.
- Protesters later broke inside and set fire to the prime minister's private residence, according to Wickremesinghe's office.
- In a broadcast announcement, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said he informed Rajapaksa that parliamentary leaders had gathered and decided to request his resignation, and the president agreed.
- Rajapaksa appointed Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister in May, hoping that the professional politician would use his diplomacy and contacts to revive the country's economy.
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Quick Glance: Speaker Accepts Resignation of Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- Earlier this week, Gotabaya Rajapaksa escaped Sri Lanka. (File
- Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana told reporters that "Gotabaya has legally resigned" with effect from Thursday.
- A soldier and a policeman were injured in fights with protestors outside the national parliament as security forces repelled an attempt to storm the building, according to police.
- On Thursday, the military and police were given new orders to decisively put down any violence, and troublemakers were told that they were "legitimately empowered to exercise their force"
- However, 26-year-old student Chirath Chathuranga Jayalath stated, "You cannot stop this protest by killing people."
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Quick Glance: Who is Wandrea ArShaye 'Shaye' Moss, and why is she testifying before the committee on January 6?
- They pointed to a video posted by a conservative political action committee that purported to show election workers, including Moss and her mother, stuffing ballots into "suitcases."
- , stated at the June 21 hearing.
- Moss testified on June 21 that she became an election worker because her family had always underlined the importance of voting, a right that her grandmother frequently pointed out was not available to previous generations.
- When Schiff inquired how many people remained on the job after the 2020 election, Moss replied that no permanent election worker or supervisor remained on the job, including herself.
Quick Glance: Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit: Singapore and Malaysia ought to be more than a footnote in the US-China conflict
- Singapore thinks stable US-China ties are critical as Pelosi remains silent on Taiwan. I cannot speak for either government, but as a foreign policy observer, I believe Malaysia and Singapore
- as well as much of the surrounding area
- I had hoped that the visit by the congressional group led by Pelosi would not be overshadowed by its stop in Taiwan.
- No government in their right mind wants to be the opening act every time an American political bigwig visits the region under the guise of engagement while secretly plotting to pinch China.
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Quick Glance: Conservative judge warns that Trump is a "clear and present danger to US democracy"
- According to J Michael Luttig, the former US president and his Republican allies are openly planning a "attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but [to] succeed"
- "Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy." Luttig stated.
- Except that's what the former president and his allies are telling us... the former president and his allies are carrying out that blueprint for 2024 in broad daylight, right in front of the American people."
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