<p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="color:#000000">Taiwan’s benchmark index closed at 17,919.33, up by 1.18% from a day earlier; it’s vaulted by 48% in the past year as investors shrugged off geopolitical and military tension with Beijing.</span></p>
