{"id":240723,"date":"2026-01-16T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:34:09","slug":"taiwan-aims-to-be-strategic-ai-partner-with-us-under-tariff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240723\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan aims to be strategic AI partner with US under tariff deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">TAIPEI, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan aims to become a close strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> partner with the United States \u200bthanks to a deal to reduce tariffs and \u200cboost Taiwanese investment in the country, Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said on \u200cFriday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Trump administration has pushed Taiwan, a major semiconductor producer, to invest more in the U.S., specifically in making the chips that are powering the trend towards AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The trade deal clinched \u2060on Thursday cuts \u200ctariffs on many of the semiconductor powerhouse&#8217;s exports, and directs new investments in the U.S. technology \u200dindustry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Taiwanese companies will invest $250 billion to increase production of semiconductors, energy and artificial intelligence in the U.S. That includes $100 billion already committed by \u200bchipmaker TSMC in 2025, with more to come, according \u200cto U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Taiwan will also guarantee an additional $250 billion in credit to facilitate further investment, the Trump administration said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Cheng, who led the talks for Taipei, told a news conference in Washington that the deal was win-win, and \u2060would also encourage U.S. investment in \u200bTaiwan, for whom the United States \u200bis its most important international backer and arms supplier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;In this negotiation we promoted two-way Taiwan\u2013U.S. high-tech investment, \u200dhoping that in \u2060the future we can become close AI strategic partners,&#8221; she said in livestreamed comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The investment plan is company \u2060not government-led, and Taiwan companies will continue to invest at home, Cheng \u200cadded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee and Ben Blanchard; Editing by \u200cJacqueline Wong and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAIPEI, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan aims to become a close strategic artificial intelligence partner with the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,129551,85,1981,46,15624,125,57381],"class_list":["post-240723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-cheng-li-chiun","tag-il","tag-investment","tag-israel","tag-taiwan","tag-technology","tag-the-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}