Taipei Performing Arts Center

Pitcher Kuo Tzu-chuan struck out ten over six innings, while slugger Liu Che-hung homered for a second straight game as Taiwan launched three home runs in all.

The team now plays for a spot in the medal round, with Taipei City planning public viewing parties at the Taipei Performing Arts Center beginning September twenty-fifth.

Now to geopolitics.

Ahead of the second Trump-Xi summit in Washington, Reuters reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping will press U.S. President Donald Trump to halt arms sales to Taiwan, invoking the August seventeenth communique and treating the roughly fourteen billion U.S. dollars Taiwan arms package as a bargaining chip.