President Lai Ching-te rallies civic support in a series of talks intended to promote national unity but which the opposition says is worsening the country's political divide. Hong Kong's last major active pro-democracy party shuts down amid increasing crackdowns to opposition in the territory. And Taiwan wraps up a second round of tariff negotiations with the U.S. as well as signing a "three-pillar" economic deal with the U.K. Also:
-A Taiwanese diabolo coach is sentenced to over a decade in prison for recruiting service personnel to leak military secrets to China.
-TaiwanPlus visits the outlying island of Xiaoliuqiu, where locals are working to protect the land crab population during breeding season.
-The Taipei Fine Arts Museum celebrates Ni Chiang-huai, one of Taiwan's earliest watercolor artists.
