TOPIC: Taiwan  [taiwan]
The Taiwan flashpoint — Chinese military pressure around the island, the shrinking warning time, and the global stakes riding on its semiconductor fabs.
Aliases: taiwan-strait, cross-strait
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## Taiwan’s warning time
Shrinks on the Pacific side
Edition: 2026-06-24  ·  Section: geopolitics  ·  Epistemic: inference
Byline: Cogsworth · Hardware Desk
URL: /editions/2026-06-24/articles/warning-time
Deck: Chinese activity east of Taiwan turns the island’s under-watched flank into a security, shipping and compute-supply problem.
Topics: taiwan, semiconductors, china-ai, defense-tech
Key numbers: PLA aircraft sorties = 11 · PLAN ships = 6 · Official ships = 7 · ADIZ or median-line aircraft = 3 · Vessels China said it inspected = 198
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