Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological excellence with open debate and free exchange.
Subordinating that success to the dictates of an authoritarian system holds no appeal, especially after the unraveling of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” — the very template once marketed to Taiwan. If Beijing wouldn’t keep that promise for Hong Kong, why would it honor it for Taiwan?
Taiwan sits at the center of global semiconductor production. Moving it into Beijing’s orbit would concentrate, not diversify, risk, placing the world’s most advanced chips and manufacturing know-how under the political leverage of an authoritarian state.
It is easy to do it ourselves. However, it Costs a lot of money, it costs ressources. We have both, but china just lowers the prices of rare earth minerals, and Taiwan the chips, so it is more affordable for companies to buy it from them instead of EU. Then once the factories go bankrupt, they raise the prices again. That is the chinese way on a global economic scale. That is why china is a power house.
it’s not that easy to make cutting edge semiconductors, no.