National Day of the Republic of China

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Lai spoke at a ceremony on Saturday marking Double Tenth Day.

Taiwan considers October 10th as its National Day.

China continues to apply pressure on Taiwan through military and gray zone activities in an attempt to alter the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has underscored the need for Taiwan to strengthen its defense capabilities amid mounting pressure from China.

Lai spoke at a ceremony on Saturday marking Double Tenth Day.

Taiwan considers October 10th as its national day.

China continues to apply pressure on Taiwan through military and gray zone activities in an attempt to alter the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.

She said today's AI development is built to a large extent on Taiwan's manufacturing capability, framing the island as an indispensable partner for global security and supply chains.

Tsai also appeared at a Double Ten National Day reception at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco, where a California state senator said the US state's economy would be impossible without Taiwan.

Now the markets.

Taiwan's exports reached eighty-seven point two two billion US dollars in September, a record single month high and up sixty point nine percent year on year, the Finance Ministry said, extending the island's longest ever run of export growth to thirty-five consecutive months.

So what kind of occasion would, um, have, have a special meal associated?

Um, the Double Tenth was always a big occasion, so that's the 10th of October.

And, uh, I, I think that Christmas, that was a thing, and, um, Granddad's birthday.

But I've, I'm telling you the story more from what I've heard from other people who told me, "Oh, we drove all the way from New Plymouth to go to your granddad's birthday for this big feast." So, um, it's a bit of a secondhand story.