Faced with the threatening claws of the Chinese dragon, the Taiwanese porcupine jealously hatches its technological spearhead.
After swallowing Hong Kong, President Xi Jinping is eyeing the rebel democratic island, across the Strait of Formosa, to accomplish Chinese "reunification", Mao's unfinished business.
But technological ulterior motives also haunt Beijing strategists, engaged in a long-term standoff with America, and must bridge a crucial gap on advanced electronic chips, essential engine for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Little Taiwan taunts the communist regime with its technological flagship TSMC, the world leader in advanced semiconductors, now banned from trading with Chinese champions like Huawei, due to US sanctions.
Thus, the group equips the new iPhone 12 from Apple, with an ultra-powerful 5 nanometer chip, the most miniaturized on the market, beyond the reach of the continental rival SMIC, targeted
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