Iran's foreign ministry said the US flagrantly breached an interim ceasefire by striking multiple monitoring and surveillance centres on Iran's southern coast, revoking a US Treasury licence for Iranian oil sales last night, and violating Iran's arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz. It said repeated illegal attacks on Iran, together with Israeli military action in Lebanon, are nullifying the ceasefire and warned the US bears responsibility for the dangerous escalation. The ministry urged all sta

At a July 8 briefing, the Taiwan Affairs Office commented on reports that TSMC will inject $20bn into its U.S. unit to build a 12‑inch wafer fab and an advanced packaging plant. The office noted this is the sixth approval by Taiwan economic authorities for TSMC's U.S. investments, bringing cumulative approved investment to $44bn, and said the move has heightened island concern that TSMC could become an "American TSMC." Spokesperson Chen Binhua accused the DPP of treating TSMC's U.S. investment as a token of alignment with the U.S., abandoning Taiwan's industrial base and sacrificing industrial interests to secure U.S. support, and warned the further this course continues the more public worries will be realised.

美国总统特朗普：（关于伊朗）北约国家将派遣扫雷舰。