Taiwan Stands on the Frontline of the Global Tech Competitiveness and Semiconductor Standoff - Ketagalan Media

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Republic of China ( PRC ) has gained ground in the US - PRC tech competition by accelerating the “Digital Silk Road ” (DSR), the technological arm of the Belt and Road Initiative .

The involvement of the PRC and Taiwan in the supply chain, and the remaining regional political tensions and divergent strategic interests, have created geopolitical risks in the global semiconductor value chain.

Chinese tech giants (e.g., Huawei , China Telecom , China Mobile , ZTE , China Unicom) have been increasing their influence in the global tech market.

The PRC has huge buying power and is being galvanized by US sanctions into developing its own chip sector.

China has the capacity to retaliate through increasing exports of Chinese semiconductor materials.

US - Taiwan tech partnerships and strategic investments of TSMC effectively balance global and regional digital geopolitics.

Semiconductor materials are raw materials of high tech industries: AI chip processors, supercomputers, smartphones, laptops, electric cars, satellites, spacecraft, rockets, etc. Unlike the Western global powers using chess, the PRC has diversified its strategic components and grand strategy.