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Avoiding War With China Is The Top Issue In Taiwan's Election

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TSMC's Plan to Export Chip Making Capacity to Other Countries

Lai: It's actually a good thing that Taiwan, especially TSMC, could set up its plans overseas because that shows the expansion of Taiwan's economic strengths. He also believes that that's Taiwan's responsibility to give back to the international community. The other element that Lai brought up was even though the chip making moves to the US, Taiwan has this ecosystem that's been built over decades and the US doesn't have that same ecosystem. So it speaks to, sure, US might get some chips out of this, but they're going to get made and then ship somewhere else for consumer goods.

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