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Taipei, Taiwan \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0For engineers working in Taiwan\u2019s semiconductor industry, the past few years have been difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United States\u2019s efforts to curb the growing power of China, Taiwan\u2019s neighbour, by cutting off its access to the most cutting-edge chips has put the island\u2019s chip sector in the crosshairs of the world\u2019s most consequential geopolitical rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Taiwan, the US-China competition for dominance is a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On one hand, US efforts to restrain China\u2019s growing power and influence serve as a counter to the risk of a possible future Chinese invasion of the self-governing island, which Beijing considers its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other, they have made doing business more complicated for semiconductor and equipment makers in Taiwan, which sell a large portion of such \u201ccritical technology\u201d to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite its small size, Taiwan produces nearly 60 percent of the world\u2019s supply of semiconductor chips and nearly 90 percent of the most advanced chips needed to power everything from smartphones to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al Jazeera: Taipei, Taiwan \u2013\u00a0For engineers working in Taiwan\u2019s semiconductor industry, the past few years have been difficult. The United States\u2019s efforts to curb the growing power of China, Taiwan\u2019s neighbour, by cutting off its access to the most cutting-edge chips has put the island\u2019s chip sector in the crosshairs of the world\u2019s most consequential geopolitical rivalry. For Taiwan, the US-China competition for dominance is a double-edged sword. On one hand, US efforts to restrain China\u2019s growing power and influence serve as a counter to the risk of a possible future Chinese invasion of the self-governing island, which Beijing considers… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42964,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions\/42964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}