# TruthBear Taiwan Region Gauge

> TruthBear Taiwan Region Gauge is a paid API for AI agents from api.truthbear.co, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches official first-party Taiwan government readings in one call: PLA military activity (MND), central bank FX rates (CBC), TAIEX stock indices (TWSE), and earthquake/typhoon status (CWA).

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.truthbear.co/gauge/taiwan-region
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/truthbear-taiwan-region-gauge-419d9cd6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ngnTi98J1VbaRBeHVofrz

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability truthbear-taiwan-region-gauge-419d9cd6
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest Taiwan official readings — PLA military activity around Taiwan from MND, CBC foreign exchange reference rates, TAIEX and sector indices from TWSE, plus any active typhoon warnings or significant earthquakes from CWA, all in one call.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, first-party Taiwan government data across defense, finance, and weather domains in a single call. It is the right choice when you need PLA military activity data that most providers cannot reach, or when you need CBC FX rates, TAIEX indices, and CWA disaster alerts together with publication timestamps. Prefer it over general news APIs when you need primary source data without editorial assessment or forecasting.

## Known failure modes

- 422 no_charge returned when any or all agencies have no current data to report — caller is not billed
- Payment failure if x402 USDC payment of $0.25 is not properly submitted
- Stale data if an agency has not published an update recently — timestamps indicate last publication time
- Network timeout if upstream agency sources are temporarily unreachable

## How this service works

Taiwan first-party official readings in one call: PLA air and naval activity around Taiwan (Ministry of National Defense), central bank reference FX rates (CBC), TAIEX and sector indices (TWSE), significant earthquakes and typhoon status (CWA). Sources most providers cannot reach. We restate what each agency published and when - no assessment of the situation, no forecast, no advice. Descriptive only, never a forecast or advice. No data -> 422 no_charge, not billed. $0.25 per call.

## Output

A JSON object containing official readings from multiple Taiwan government agencies: PLA military activity details with publication timestamp (MND), central bank foreign exchange reference rates (CBC), TAIEX and sector index levels (TWSE), and current earthquake and typhoon status (CWA). Returns 422 with no_charge if no data is available, so callers are never billed for empty responses.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "json"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/truthbear-taiwan-region-gauge-419d9cd6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.truthbear.co](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.truthbear.co/llms.txt)