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 8 Nov 2026Last evidence 8 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Asian stock markets plunge as Japan Nikkei, South Korea KOSPI and Taiwan stocks fall

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • Micron Taiwan Expansion: USD 4.5 Billion Plant Halted Over Pay Dispute

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Cuba flight, Taiwan trade pushback, Panama probe: 7 Latin America relations reads

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Taiwan tightens China chip export controls, adds penalties and closes loopholes

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • M4.3 earthquake — 38 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 5 events and claims involving Taiwan

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 20 mentions on 8 Nov 2026, against 79 on 18 Oct 2026 (-75%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 8 Nov 2026 (3 changes recorded since 2 Nov 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

2,557 documents · 394 publishers · 7% say something specific about it · last evidence 8 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
  • 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 StatesTrumpIndiaIran
  • China · 1,507 shared documents
  • AI · 1,205 shared documents
  • Japan · 960 shared documents
  • South Korea · 884 shared documents
  • Semiconductor · 650 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 601 shared documents
  • Asian · 534 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 511 shared documents
  • India · 472 shared documents
  • Iran · 440 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 20 mentions on 8 Nov 2026 with 79 on 18 Oct 2026 (-75%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -39% from 24 Sept 2026 to 8 Nov 2026, between 20 and 126 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.

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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        "label": "The other 299 mentions",
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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.

  • Asian stock markets plunge as Japan Nikkei, South Korea KOSPI and Taiwan stocks fall

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Micron Taiwan Expansion: USD 4.5 Billion Plant Halted Over Pay Dispute

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Cuba flight, Taiwan trade pushback, Panama probe: 7 Latin America relations reads

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Taiwan tightens China chip export controls, adds penalties and closes loopholes

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • M4.3 earthquake — 38 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

Walk the record from Taiwan

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Taiwan

Entity.

Evidence
2,557 documents · 394 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 8 Nov 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Nov 2026
15 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (5)

  • 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.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

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
  • 38.5% Yes

    “Will Lee Shu-chuan win the next New Taipei Mayor election?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Nov 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

  • 33.1% Yes

    “Will Puma Shen win the next Taipei Mayor election?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Nov 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

  • 46.5% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Taipei be 24°C on November 9?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Nov 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 9 Nov 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 8 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 5 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 5 Nov 2026

  • 5 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 1 Nov 2026

3 changes recorded since 2 Nov 2026, 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 8 Nov 2026.