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Starlink in Taiwan

6 publicly reported Starlink problems in Taiwan since 2022: outages, prices, disputes and court cases, each linked to its source.

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Elon Musk and Taiwan

3 entries in the Musk tracker

Documented statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies concerning Taiwan's politics, government, courts or regulators, with the official response.

Disputed claims

Musk calls Taiwan 'an integral part of China' at All-In Summit; Taiwan's foreign minister responds

Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Musk said Taiwan is an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China and that it may be analogous to Hawaii from Beijing's standpoint.

Response: Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu wrote on X: Listen up, Taiwan is not part of the PRC & certainly not for sale! and added he hoped Musk could ask the CCP to open X to its people.

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Disputed claims

Musk suggests in FT interview that Taiwan become a 'special administrative zone' of China

In a Financial Times interview, Musk proposed a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable and said an arrangement could be more lenient than Hong Kong. Reuters and The Independent reported that he also said he considered conflict…

Response: China's ambassador to the US, Qin Gang, thanked Musk and restated Beijing's peaceful reunification and One Country, Two Systems principles. Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the US, Hsiao Bi-khim,…

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Courts and regulators

DateMatterTypeStatus
9 Oct 2026SpaceX Buys Wireless Spectrum For Starlink; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile TumbleRegulatorReported
26 Nov 2025Can Starlink be blocked? Scary Chinese simulation shows 1,000 drones can jam satellite internet over an island as large as TaiwanRegulatorReported

All reports for Taiwan