New Analysis Over the past three years, more tech companies around the globe are aligning with U.S. efforts to decouple from China—a campaign to cut China out of the high-tech supply chain started by the Trump administration. At a Feb. 11 press conference, the White House outlined its Indo-Pacific Strategy, and highlighted the Biden administration’s core actions on maintaining regional security and restructuring the global supply chain, which build on the Trump administration’s efforts. Amid the U.S.-led decoupling endeavor, Taiwan, the world’s largest chip producer and arguably the most critical link in the high-tech supply chain, has become Beijing’s primary target to infiltrate. A Taiwanese think tank identified several vulnerabilities in Taiwan that could allow China to obtain key technologies critical to the U.S.-led high-tech supply chain. ‘Four Loopholes’ In an interview with The Epoch Times, Lai Chung-Chiang, a Taiwanese lawyer and convenor of Economic Democracy Union (EDU), a Taiwanese think …
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