Demonstrators gather in Taipei's Liberty Square to mark the anniversary 1989's Tiananmen Square crackdown, part of several activities in Taiwan commemorating the event that saw the Chinese government violently squash the country's democracy movement. Liberal reformer Lee Jae
-myung wins South Korea's snap presidential election, following months of political turmoil in the country. The OECD gives a gloomy forecast for global GDP, citing uncertainty brought on by tariffs and the trade war, though Taiwan's tech industry may shield it from the worst effects.Plus:
-Local government leaders voice anger over cuts to their funding outside Taiwan's Cabinet. - TaiwanPlus asks whether the presence of Chinese aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific could signal a new normal.
-We meet the university team behind what could be the first Taiwanese payload to land on the moon.
