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The Sustainable Development Report 2026 tracks global progress on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all UN member states in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. China surpassed Russia in 2021 and is on track to surpass the United States in the coming years.

Taiwan’s Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim spoke to Jan Jekielek, host of “American Thought Leaders’ by The Epoch Times on June 22. She warned that Beijing’ s growing use of cognitive warfare, political interference, and coercion tactics pose an expanding challenge to democratic societies in the Indo-Pacific region. Since its establishment in 1949, Taiwan has operated as a de facto independent polity with its own democratically-elected government, military, and foreign relations. Beijing claims Taiwan as a breakaway province and rightful part of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Kim Jong Un supports Beijing's "One China" principle. U.S. industrial capacity has been seriously weakened by decades of offshoring. President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, enabling the Department of Defense to establish voluntary agreements with private providers to break bottlenecks and accelerate supply chains. A war between China and Taiwan could exploit the above overlapping vulnerabilities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a short film series titled "Taiwan Connects" June 23. The series was released during a reception hosted by the Taipei Representative Office in Poland for the Polish-Taiwanese Parliamentary Group and Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung. The films focus on the increasingly deep ties between the two sides.

In May, Hong Kong exports grew by 40.8% year on year to HK$611.2 billion (US$77.95 billion). It is the second month in a row that export growth exceeded 40%. Imports grew by 42%, resulting in a trade deficit of HK$44.2billion.

Missouri State University operated an MBA and Executive MBA pipeline that trained more than 1,500 Chinese executives, government officials and state-owned enterprise managers since 2001. Graduates of the program included executives linked to Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China's largest state- owned aerospace and defense conglomerate. The report claims the program was funded by the U.S. government or Missouri state-supported subsidies, but it cannot be independently verified.

Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim recently sat down for an interview with Jan Jekielek, host of the show “American Thought Leaders” at The Epoch Times in Taipei City. The segment was aired on June 24 by the U.S. media outlet.