{"id":985687,"date":"2026-01-16T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985687"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:17:07","slug":"us-and-taiwan-reach-trade-deal-with-semiconductor-chips-and-china-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/us-and-taiwan-reach-trade-deal-with-semiconductor-chips-and-china-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Taiwan reach trade deal, with semiconductor chips and China in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. and Taiwan clinched a trade deal on Thursday that cuts tariffs \u2060on many of the semiconductor powerhouse&#8217;s exports, directs new investments in the U.S. technology industry and risks infuriating China. <\/p>\n<p>The deal deepens the Trump administration&#8217;s ties with Taipei at a critical time as China ratchets up pressure on the island, which it views as its own, and Washington has worked to avoid an all-out trade war with Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. and Taiwan clinched a trade deal on Thursday that cuts tariffs \u2060on many of the semiconductor powerhouse&#8217;s exports, directs new investments in the U.S. technology industry and risks infuriating China. The deal deepens the Trump administration&#8217;s ties with Taipei at a critical time as China ratchets up pressure on the island, which it views as its own, and Washington has worked to avoid an all-out trade war with Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}