The meeting comes as the White House said it is set to announce a more than $100 billion investment in the United States by a chipmaker from Taiwan, amid a push by Trump to encourage investments in American manufacturing.

The Taiwanese chip giant TSMC’s plan to invest $100 billion in the United States has been met with anxiety and criticism in its home country.

The US President was once seen as a strong supporter of Taiwan. Now he is accusing it of stealing from the US.

The United States cannot abandon the Indo-Pacific because the region is part of its "core national interests", Taiwan's Defence Minister Wellington Koo said amid concerns about U.S. security commitments to Taiwan.

President Donald Trump is scheduled on Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress, as his second administration moves to recast the federal government, implement "America First" policies and redefine U.S. support for Ukraine.

A longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan has—under Trump—begun to breed anxious uncertainty.

Trump announced the semiconductor manufacturing investment but did not say if it would provide security for Taiwan.

TSMC is on a slippery slope. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , the world's largest chipmaker, on Monday pledged $100 billion in fresh funds to build factories in the United States. It also committed to set up a major research and development centre stateside,

a Taiwan chipmaker, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Trump will announce the investment, which will occur over the next four years, in the Roosevelt Room on Monday ...

The events of Feb. 28, 2025, generated a sense of shock and dread that resonated with the reaction to Jan. 6, 2020 — a feeling that something terribly wrong and irreversible had just happened to

The company had already begun constructing three plants in Arizona after the Biden administration offered billions in subsidies.