How Taiwan's centrality in the global chip supply chain may help keep the peace by providing the island with a “silicon shield” against a Chinese invasion
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As Chinese warships rehearsed a blockade of Taiwan this month, they simulated a scenario global leaders … Tweets: @epro , @ldrogen , @jchengwsj , @amfchina , @martijnrasser , @paulmozur , and @nytimestech Tweets: Emil Protalinski / @epro : This argument works brilliantly in a world without authoritarians. https://twitter.com/... Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : This theory of globalization = peace basically held up for 70 years until Russia invaded Ukraine The reason it's so important to soundly defeat Russia is to put this back in the box https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : “Right now, they're moving very much toward the U.S....But from the perspective of the Taiwanese economy and most Taiwanese companies, they need to retain a link—and hopefully as close as possible a link—with China.” @paulmozur @JohnLiuNN @zhonggg https://www.nytimes.com/... Andreas Fulda / @amfchina : Taiwan 🇹🇼 should leverage the world's dependence on its #semiconductor ‘democracy chips’ to secure its survival as a de facto independent and democratic country. https://www.nytimes.com/... Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : “Not for nothing do people in Taiwan call TSMC their “sacred mountain, protector of the nation.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @paulmozur : A new great game is unfolding from a basic, and unsettling, reality of the global economy: Taiwan is the biggest producer of the world's most advanced microchips and it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : A new great game is unfolding from a basic, and unsettling, reality of the global economy: Taiwan is the biggest producer of the world's most advanced chips. It is also rapidly becoming one of the world's most dangerous geopolitical flash points. https://www.nytimes.com/...