TSMC, the world’s leading contract chipmaker, has inadvertently become a geopolitical flash point again in relations between China, the U.S., and the island of Taiwan.
At a regular news conference in Beijing on Wednesday, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, accused the island’s current government, the Democratic Progressive Party, of leveraging its world-leading chip industry “to seek independence,” and even giving its companies away as “souvenirs,” according to Reuters and Chinese media reports.
