Entity

Taiwan

A self-governed island claimed by China; it manufactures most of the world's advanced semiconductors, placing it at the center of technology and security risk.

As of 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 21 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Micron's Taiwan Union to Strike on the 22nd Over Profit-Sharing Demand

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • A Canadian west coast oil pipeline and coalitional oil security in a Taiwan contingency

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Smuggling Nvidia Chips Into China Is About to Become a Crime in Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Taiwan Blocks Coinbase and Kalshi Websites Over Suspected Election Betting

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Taiwan to Criminalize Unauthorized AI Chip Exports to China: Smugglers Lose Safe Harbor

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 5 events and claims involving Taiwan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 95 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 56 on 29 Sept 2026 (+70%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from steady to rising on 20 Oct 2026 (10 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 20 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,761 documents · 317 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 21 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.075: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Taiwan

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

ChinaAIJapanSouth KoreaUnited StatesSemiconductorTrumpIranIndia
  • China · 1,067 shared documents
  • AI · 821 shared documents
  • Japan · 649 shared documents
  • South Korea · 616 shared documents
  • United States · 447 shared documents
  • Semiconductor · 439 shared documents
  • Trump · 380 shared documents
  • Asian · 379 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran · 317 shared documents
  • India · 308 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 95 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 56 on 29 Sept 2026 (+70%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +533% from 6 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 12 and 120 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Taiwan, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Taiwan yet. Ask about Taiwan

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Geopolitics Desk

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/153580dd4945665711b6f413 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name taiwan.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Taiwan

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Micron's Taiwan Union to Strike on the 22nd Over Profit-Sharing Demand

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • A Canadian west coast oil pipeline and coalitional oil security in a Taiwan contingency

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Smuggling Nvidia Chips Into China Is About to Become a Crime in Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Taiwan Blocks Coinbase and Kalshi Websites Over Suspected Election Betting

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Taiwan to Criminalize Unauthorized AI Chip Exports to China: Smugglers Lose Safe Harbor

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    could not check

Walk the record from Taiwan

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Taiwan

Entity.

Evidence
1,761 documents · 317 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 6 Apr 2026, last seen 21 Oct 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 Oct 2026
15 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (5)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Taiwan, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Markets materially about Taiwan

Markets whose question is about Taiwan or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Taiwan and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No open market in the record is materially about Taiwan: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

3 more open markets joined to Taiwan but not about it
  • 0.2% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Taipei be 29°C or higher on October 22?”

    Polymarket · priced 21 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 22 Oct 2026

  • 53% Yes

    “Will Su Chiao-hui win the next New Taipei Mayor election?”

    Polymarket · priced 21 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

  • 64.5% Yes

    “Will Chiang Wan-an win the next Taipei Mayor election?”

    Polymarket · priced 21 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

  • 19 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 16 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 15 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 15 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

10 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

Ask about TaiwanWatch Taiwan

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 21 Oct 2026.