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China eyes Taiwan’s ‘sacred’ chip industry in pivotal election

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source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/07/china-eyes-taiwans-sacred-chip-industry-pivotal-election/
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China eyes Taiwan’s ‘sacred’ chip industry in pivotal election

Island nation polling day raises stakes for future of the world's semiconductor factory

James Titcomb

7 January 2024 • 1:00pm
Taiwanese Vice President and Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate William Lai

A win for anti-China candidate William Lai would agitate Beijing – which wants more control of the world's microchip supply

Credit: AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying

In a year when American, Indian and British citizens will go to the polls, elections in Taiwan, the democratic island off the coast of China, may not attract too much attention...


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