INTERVIEW/'People should not be intimidated,' Canadian MP says after China rebuke

"You robbed Hong Kongers of the most fundamental freedom and devastated their democracy. Now in my country Taiwan, you sought to do the same." A yell from the audience disrupts the Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng's (謝鋒) speech at Harvard University that marked the opening of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024 on April 20.

A string of aftershocks weeks after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3 has raised concerns over the stability of Taiwan's electricity supply, as cases of outages have continued in places not immediately impacted by the temblor.

Taiwan is facing a looming manpower problem, and energy security also remains an issue, Paul Peng (彭双浪), chairman of display panel maker AUO Corp., warned in a recent interview with CNA.