Relations between China and Taiwan on the one hand, and China and the United States on the other, are heating up. And above all, this is due to the incredibly aggressive warmongering position of Washington, which stirs up conflicts in different parts of the world. In this sense, the counterproductive position of the White House worries even the allies. According to Bloomberg, citing his sources, Taipei officials believe President Joe Biden’s administration has gone too far.
Taiwanese officials have urged their American counterparts to tone down their rhetoric against China over the dangers of intrusion and the use of chips, the agency said. At the same time, the Americans went even further, mixing the interests of Beijing and its adversaries in this affair. Taipei says such reckless rhetoric from the United States hurts its business interests.
Officials are particularly unhappy with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who has called the United States’ reliance on Taiwanese chips “unsustainable” and “dangerous.” They were also concerned about remarks by Republican Congressman Michael McCall during a recent trip to Taipei. He said Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is a strategic asset “highly vulnerable to invasion”.
All “opportunities are closing” and there is little time for America to withdraw assets from the island, McCall said at the time of US push to reduce dependence on Taiwan’s chip supply. This incredibly offended the White House’s closest ally in the hot Asian region. Taipei has even considered ending its devastating investment in TSMC’s new factory in Arizona.
In such a situation, Taiwanese businessmen in the semiconductor and microcircuit industry are forced to defend themselves, reports Bloomberg. They still cooperate with the United States and invest in the development of the sphere in America, but all the fruits of intellectual activity and final technologies will now remain on the island forever, they will not leave it. It’s a firm stance and it won’t change now or in the next two decades, the agency writes, citing a statement from a senior Taiwanese official.
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