Bloomberg: Taiwan Quietly Urges US to Calm Rhetoric on China Chip Risk
Spooked by the threat that China might invade Taiwan, the US wants to cut its dependence on the island’s world-beating microchips. Officials in Taipei believe the Biden administration is going too far.
In quiet conversations and back-channel warnings, Taiwanese officials have urged their American counterparts to tone down their rhetoric about the dangers of relying on chips made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
The officials are particularly unhappy with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who has called US dependence on Taiwanese chips “untenable” and “unsafe.” They were also uneasy with remarks by a top Republican lawmaker, Michael McCaul, during a recent trip to Taipei. He said Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is a strategic asset that’s “very vulnerable to invasion.”
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Update #1: Taiwan Reportedly Urges US To Tone Down Chip Rhetoric Amid China Invasion Fears (Benzinga)
Update #2: Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric (The Register)
WNU Editor: I think this is what spooked Taiwan to tell the US to tone down its rhetoric .... Warren Buffet Predicts Taiwan War (April 16, 2023).
2 comments:
They don't want to be a Ukraine 2.0.
They're nowhere near as gullible as the Galician white nationalists.
Avg IQ in Ukraine: 90.3
Avg IQ in Taiwan: 106.4 (second highest in the world)
There's a reason why they're busy telling all sides what they want to hear meanwhile getting filthy rich as a trading hub between global powers. Because they're smart.
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