Focus Taiwan media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Focus Taiwan as leaning left. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Focus Taiwan biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Focus Taiwan as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Focus Taiwan left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Focus Taiwan as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Focus Taiwan reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Focus Taiwan are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Focus Taiwan has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Focus Taiwan’s own report linked underneath.
The United States is reportedly considering delaying announcements on significant arms sales to Taiwan. This potential postponement could extend past the APEC and G20 summits, with implications for defence firms and diplomatic relations.
Focus Taiwan reported it asAnduril founder says he discussed Taiwan arms sale with Trump (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
Focus Taiwan reported it asVolcanic eruption in Indonesia disrupts Taiwan-Jakarta flights (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
Focus Taiwan reported it asVolcanic eruption in Indonesia disrupts Taiwan-Jakarta flights (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
Focus Taiwan reported it asTaiwan checking safety of nationals after deadly Tibet landslide: MAC (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Focus Taiwan reported it asTaiwan checking safety of nationals after deadly Tibet landslide: MAC (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te visited the frontline island of Kinmen on August 23, 2026, to mark the 68th anniversary of a key battle with Chinese forces. He stated that peace can only be secured through strength and not an inch of territory should be sacrificed.
Focus Taiwan reported it asKinmen defense in 1958 example of 'peace through strength': Lai (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
The US has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on drones and components, effective 3 September 2026, to address national security concerns and reduce dependence on Chinese imports. Drones over 25 kilograms or with thermal imaging face the highest duties, while smaller drones are subject to lower tariffs.
Focus Taiwan reported it asTeco to assess drone part production in U.S. after new tariff (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Taiwan’s top representative in Japan, Lee Yi-yang, boycotted the 81st anniversary memorial of the Nagasaki atomic bombing after his delegation was not seated among diplomatic missions. Nagasaki officials said the seating was not clearly distinguished as nondiplomatic, while Lee called the arrangement an insult to Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Focus Taiwan reported it asTaiwan envoy to Japan protests Nagasaki memorial designation, skips event (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Taiwan began its annual Han Kuang military exercise on 5 August 2026, running combat drills for troops and reservists to practise repelling an attack. Civilians will face air raid drills and temporary mobile internet slowdowns. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has repeatedly threatened to use force to seize the island.
Focus Taiwan reported it asReservists conduct rifle and mortar drills in Taipei (opens Focus Taiwan in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanLeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Focus Taiwan.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Official site
- focustaiwan.tw
- Seen publishing on
- focustaiwan.tw
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 6 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Focus Taiwan ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Focus Taiwan: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
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