Category: NPR

• NPR: Musicians protest through song at festival in Taiwan

  2–4 minutes

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  June 26, 2025

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  NPR

  Listen to the radio story at NPR’s website here. TRANSCRIPT OF RADIO STORY SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Social movements have long used music to spread messages and rally support. Musicians from across Taiwan gathered in the southern port city of Kaohsiung recently to try to remind people of the precarious geopolitical situation in which they find…

  

• NPR: Seeing Washington change course on Ukraine, Taiwan ponders its own fate

  6–9 minutes

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  June 26, 2025

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  NPR

  Listen to and read the story at NPR’s website here. TAIPEI, Taiwan — The new U.S. administration is taking a sharp turn on support for Ukraine. Thousands of miles away from Kyiv, policy makers and analysts in Taiwan are wondering whether it will be the next casualty of the changing moods in Washington, and what…

  

• NPR: Taiwanese chip giant’s investments in U.S. stir ‘silicon shield’ security worries

  4–5 minutes

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  June 26, 2025

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  NPR

  Read the story at NPR’s website here. TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Trump’s plan for Taiwan’s leading semiconductor company to invest $100 billion into new semiconductor facilities in Arizona has divided politics here in Taiwan. Opposition politicians worry it could damage the “silicon shield” that many believe helps keep Taiwan safe from a Chinese attack. Opposition Kuomintang (KMT)…