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 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Micron Is Making Record Profits, But a Taiwan Union Just Voted 99% to Authorize a Strike

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • ‘Diverging’ trajectories: Taiwan dethrones South Korea atop global markets as AI trade widens

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • California woman arrested and accused of spying on Taiwan president’s son for China

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Taiwan’s first two F-16V fighter jets arrive to bolster defenses against China

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

All 5 events and claims involving Taiwan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 99 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 44 on 17 Sept 2026 (+125%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Taiwan yet.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,225 documents · 263 publishers · 29% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.293: about 71% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 5 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 StatesTrumpSemiconductorIranXi Jinping

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +725% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 3 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 Is Making Record Profits, But a Taiwan Union Just Voted 99% to Authorize a Strike

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • ‘Diverging’ trajectories: Taiwan dethrones South Korea atop global markets as AI trade widens

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • California woman arrested and accused of spying on Taiwan president’s son for China

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Taiwan’s first two F-16V fighter jets arrive to bolster defenses against China

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

    corroborated

Walk the record from Taiwan

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Taiwan

Entity.

Evidence
1,225 documents · 263 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 Oct 2026
Measured
29% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 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.

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
  • 49% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Taipei be 30°C on October 9?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 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 9 Oct 2026

  • 79.5% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 8 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

  • 53% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 8 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.

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 Oct 2026.