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Andrew Yeh
Frequent flyers through Europe are used to the occasional flight delay. Overloaded airports and carefully calibrated low-cost models mean that even slight disruptions can wreak havoc across the continent—with IT faults, power failures, and even extreme weather all causing mass delays and cancellations in recent years. Yet, in September this year, travelers in Copenhagen and Oslo experienced a novel form of disruption: large drones detected nearby the airports caused closures and flights to be grounded. Suspicion soon turned to Russia, and in particular, toward several nearby shadow-fleet linked vessels that could have served as launchpads.
By:
Jing-han Chen
In 2024, an outspoken advocate for surrogacy, Chen Chao-tzu (陳æ˜å§¿), was elected to Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (立法院), thereby drew greater public attention to the issue. Surrogacy is currently illegal in Taiwan and remains a contentious issue. According to a 2025 study on public health policy, the Taiwanese public holds significant concerns about the legalization of surrogacy and its potential social impact on the rights of women and children. Nonetheless, some Taiwanese individuals continue to travel abroad to countries where commercial surrogacy is permitted and have children through such arrangements.
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Peter (Hung-Yao) Chu
The strategic importance of Taiwan in global supply chains has led the European Union to reassess and adjust its economic strategy toward the island. Since a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait will not only disrupt global supply chains, but also have a serious impact on the European economy, the EU now regards Taiwan as a like-minded partner in both economic and security matters. Over the past nine years, the EU’s stance on Taiwan has evolved from a cautious, economically-centered engagement into a robust, wide-ranging partnership.
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