2023/03/26-2023/04/01

3/27
前總統馬英九訪中,在南京中山陵拜謁致詞時提及「中華民國」,強調中華民國至今「已一一二年了」;與江蘇省委書記公開談話也提起,「這也是我在台灣總統任內」;更在湖南大學與學生座談時表示,我國分兩部分,台灣、大陸都是中華民國,密集凸顯「中華民國」元素,是過往台灣政黨人士登陸從未有過的作法。馬英九訪陸是兩岸分治七十四年以來,第一位踏進中國大陸土地的卸任中華民國元首。

March 27: 
Former President Ma Ying-jeou mentioned the "Republic of China" in his public remarks after paying respects to Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the Mausoleum in Nanjing, stressing that the R.O.C. is now in its 112th year. In his meeting with Xin Changxing, Communist Party secretary of Jinagsu Province, Mr. Ma also mentioned events during his "presidency" in Taiwan. In a discussion with students at Hunan University, Mr. Ma stated that both Taiwan and the mainland are parts of the R.O.C. His repeated emphasis of the R.O.C. is unprecedented for Taiwan politicians who have visited the mainland. Mr. Ma is the first former head of state of the R.O.C. to set foot on the Chinese mainland in 74 years since the two sides of the Taiwan Strait became separately ruled in 1949.


3/27
鴻海創辦人郭台銘赴美展開12天科技經濟開拓之旅,除拜會華府重要人士,布魯金斯學會演講,也受邀前往馬里蘭大學談論工業AI、哈佛大學拜會醫學院及商學院院長。郭在馬里蘭大學與台灣同學會座談時指出,國家領導人應該要運用優勢,把台灣打造成「科技島」,而不是「彈藥島」。

March 27: 
Terry Gou, founder of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company (Foxconn), embarked on a 12-day tour of the United States stressing technology and economic development. In addition to visiting important people in Washington and delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution, Mr. Gou spoke on industrial artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Maryland (UMD) and visited the medical school and business school deans of Harvard University. In his discussion with the Taiwan Student Association at the UMD, Mr. Gou indicated that the next leader of Taiwan ought to build the country into a "technology island" rather than an "ammunition island."


3/27
「台版晶片法案(產業創新條例修正案)」光環聚焦晶片製造,引發IC設計業不平。面對中國大陸IC設計產值將於2026年超越台灣,全球市占躍居第二。聯發科攜手其他指標IC設計業提出「台灣IC設計產業白皮書」。董事長蔡明介表示,台版晶片法案未落實普及所有半導體產業,應納入IC設計、下游系統產品應用、軟體及整個生態系。

March 27: 
The amended Statute for Industrial Innovation, dubbed the Taiwan version of the CHIPS Act, focuses on chip manufacturing and caused dissatisfaction in the integrated circuit (IC) design industry. Mainland China's IC design output value is expected to surpass Taiwan's in 2026 and occupy the second largest market share. MediaTek joined forces with other flagship IC design companies to put forth a white paper on Taiwan's IC design industry. Chairman Tsai Ming-kai stated that the Taiwan version of the CHIPS Act should incorporate all parts of the semiconductor industry, including IC design, downstream system and product applications, software, and the entire ecosystem.


3/29
蔡英文總統啟程出訪中美洲邦交國,去程過境美國紐約,回程過境洛杉磯,預計會見美國眾議院議長麥卡錫,4月7日返國。原本美國國務院首次安排資深官員特別為蔡總統進行過境簡報,卻在最後一刻喊停,引發討論,國務院並未說明原因。而原本傳出美國前國務卿龐培歐將出席紐約晚會與蔡對話,最後也未現身。

March 29: 
President Tsai Ing-wen commenced her foreign visit to diplomatic allies in Central America and will make stops in New York on her way and Los Angeles, California, on her return trip. She is expected to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy of the U.S. House of Representatives. Originally, the Department of State arranged for senior officials to give President Tsai an unprecedented transit briefing, but it was canceled at the last minute. The State Department did not state the reason. It was originally reported that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would attend the New York gala and have a dialogue with President Tsai, but he did not show up in the end.


3/29
新光三越董事長村上英之任期屆滿,新光三越召開董事會,決定董事長重新由台灣人出任,為泛新光集團、新纖董事長吳東昇,副董事長則由日本三越伊勢丹代表出任,總經理吳昕陽依然擔任總座不變。

March 29: 
The term of Hideyuki Murakami as chairman of major department store chain Shin Kong Mitsukoshi has elapsed. The company convened a board meeting and elected Taiwanese Eric Wu as chairman and a representative from Japan's Isetan Mitsukoshi as vice chairman. (Mr. Wu concurrently serves as chairman of the Hsin Kong Group and Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation.) The general manager of Shin Kong Mitsukoshi remains Wu Hsin-yang.


3/30
台灣沿海一個半月來出現20具浮屍,警方確認其中7人為越南籍,並查出14名越南人疑在上月中旬前搭船偷渡來台,可能發生船難或遭人蛇「丟包」大海。排除九名自殺或意外落水的台灣人,還有四具遺體身分不明。

March 30: 
In the past one and a half month, 20 floating corpses have appeared along the coast of Taiwan. The police confirmed that seven of them were Vietnamese. They also found 14 Vietnamese suspected of being smuggled to Taiwan by boat before the middle of last month. There may have be a shipwreck, or people were thrown to the sea by human smuggling syndicates. Excluding the nine Taiwanese who either committed suicide or fell into the water by accident, four corpses remain identified.


3/30
美國晶片法案開始接受廠商申請,但台積電董事長劉德音出席TSIA會員大會受訪時表示,有些限制條款,台積電無法接受,還需要與美國商務部溝通,但他並未明言那些條件無法接受。這是台積電首度對美國晶片法表態。

March 30: 
The U.S. CHIPS Act has begun to accept applications from companies, but Chairman Mark Liu of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) stated in an interview at the annual meeting of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) that TSMC finds some of the restrictive clauses unacceptable and needs to communicate with the U.S. Department of Commerce. But Mr. Liu did not explicitly state which conditions are unacceptable. This is the first the time that TSMC has expressed a position on the CHIPS Act.


3/30
基隆民眾反對台電填海造陸、在基隆協和電廠外海興建第四天然氣接收站,提出地方性護海公投。基隆市長謝國樑宣布,審查通過,可進入第二階段連署。但中選會表示,內政部已認定該題並非地方自治事項,不得經由再次補正而成為地方公投。

March 30: 
Many in Keelung have expressed opposition against the Taiwan Power Company's land reclamation and construction of a fourth natural gas receiving station off the Keelung Hsieh-ho Power Plant and proposed a local referendum on sea protection. Mayor Hsieh Kuo-liang announced that the referendum petition passed initial review and may proceed to the second stage of collecting signatures. However, the Central Election Commission stated that the Ministry of the Interior has determined that the question concerned is not a matter of local autonomy and may not be addressed as a local referendum.