Σοδομισμός της Κίνας απο την Δημοκρατία

[nemo]

αρχιζουν να ομολογουν οτι το αεπ της κινας ειναι ισοτιμο με τις ηπα
αλλα μας λενε οτι στρατιωτικα υπολειπονται κατα πολυ απο τις ηπα

αμφιβαλω για τον λογο οτι η κινα δεν θα καθισει να περιαυτολογει για τα στρατιωτικα της
μεσα και τις εξελιξεις στον τομεα της τεχνολογιας

[Προέλλην]

Λοβοτομή κανονική.

Έχει και δικαίωμα ψήφου τώρα αυτό το, πράμα.

[Προέλλην]

Why China is not sanctioning Taiwan’s key chip industry

Beijing relies on self-ruled island’s semiconductors to keep its economy on track.

China has turned to the familiar playbook of trade restrictions following US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

After Pelosi proceeded with her trip to the democratically-ruled island in spite of Beijing’s warnings, Chinese authorities suspended imports of Taiwanese citrus fruits and fish, and exports of sand.

State media also announced that major military drills around Taiwan would start on Thursday, framing the exercises as a “rehearse reunification operation”.

The trade moves have been widely interpreted as political actions aimed at pressuring the island, which Beijing considers a breakaway province that should be “reunified” — by force if necessary — although Chinese officials cited biosecurity and other trade-related grounds.

Beijing’s latest apparent attempt at economic coercion, however, conspicuously left Taiwan’s most valuable export of all untouched: semiconductors.

That is most likely because China depends on Taiwan’s exports of the critical components almost as much as the island does itself.

For Beijing, targeting Taiwan’s semiconductor industry would come at the cost of inflicting significant harm on itself.

How important are semiconductors to Taiwan?

Taiwan dominates the global industry for semiconductors, critical components used in everything from smartphones and medical devices to cars and fighter jets.

The self-ruled island accounts for 64 percent of semiconductor manufacturing revenue, according to TrendForce, with industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) alone taking up more than half of the total pie.

South Korea, the next biggest producer, controls less than one-fifth of the market.

For the most advanced semiconductors, Taiwan accounts for 92 percent of production, according to a report by Boston Consulting.

For Taipei, which is officially recognised by just 13 countries and the Vatican, the semiconductor industry’s importance to the economy and the island’s security can hardly be overstated.

After years of explosive demand, semiconductors now make up nearly 40 percent of exports and about 15 percent of gross domestic product.

“Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is critical for its economy, given that Taiwan is positioning itself to be a high-tech leader and the Fourth Industrial Revolution will rely on leading-edge semiconductors that Taiwanese companies can design and produce,” James Lee, an assistant research fellow in Academia Sinica in Taiwan, told Al Jazeera.

“The semiconductor industry is also critical for Taiwan’s security because it elevates Taiwan’s strategic importance for other countries, especially the United States and Western Europe.”

While Beijing’s targeting of citrus fruits and fish are expected to have a minimal effect on Taiwan’s economy, it could inflict far more damage by cutting off imports of the chips.

Why does China need Taiwan’s semiconductors?

As much as Taiwan depends on its semiconductor industry, China does, too.

The world’s second-largest economy accounts for 60 percent of the global demand for semiconductors, according to a 2020 Congressional Research Service report.

More than 90 percent of that demand is met by imports and foreign firms with production in the country, according to the same report.

Despite pouring billions of dollars into developing its industry, China controls less than 10 percent of the market, led by Shanghai-based SMIC.

“China is dependent on Taiwan because while Chinese companies can design semiconductors, they have only a limited capacity to manufacture them, especially at the leading edge,” Lee said.

“Recently there have been reports that SMIC has developed the ability to manufacture 7-nm chips, but this is still in the early stages and well behind TSMC and Samsung.”

While China has often been accused of using economic coercion against other countries, it has excluded certain goods that are important to its economy from sanctions in the past.

After China halted imports of Australian beef, wine and barley in 2020 following a dispute over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Beijing continued importing huge quantities of iron ore to meet its ferocious appetite for steel.

Could China target semiconductors in future?

It is uncertain how long Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance will last.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has described the reliance on foreign technology as the “greatest hidden danger” facing the country and pledged to increase its self-sufficiency.

Under the “Made in China” initiative, Beijing has pledged to invest $1.4 trillion between 2020 and 2025 in high-tech industries including semiconductors.

In 2020 alone, Chinese semiconductor companies were on the receiving end of 227.6 billion yuan ($33.7bn) in investment, up four-fold from the previous year, according to research by TechNode.

Last year, China’s production of integrated circuits increased to 359.4 billion units, a 33.3 percent rise from the preceding year, according to official government data.

“I think China is unlikely to use sanctions against the semiconductor industry while it is still dependent on Taiwanese companies for manufacturing,” Lee said. “This may change if Beijing develops a stronger manufacturing capacity of its own, but that is still several years away, in my view.”

China’s bid to achieve self-sufficiency has not been entirely smooth sailing. Such high-profile figures as SMIC founder Richard Chang Rugin have pointed to a chronic lack of talent holding the domestic industry back.

More recently, the industry has been rocked by a series of arrests of high-profile figures associated with the 100 billion yuan ($14.82bn) National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. Investigations culminated in the detention last month of Zhao Weiguo, the former boss of troubled chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, which filed for bankruptcy in July last year.

“I think they will only block chip imports when they are ready for the war,” Henry Gao, a Chinese trade expert at Singapore Management University, told Al Jazeera, referring to the Chinese government’s economic sanctions against Taiwan.

“It is very hard to develop the capacity on semiconductors. Many of their previous efforts have failed as you can see from the recent arrests in the industry.”


https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/ ... h-industry

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In a rare public interview, TSMC chairman Mark Liu told CNN on Monday that in a war between China and Taiwan, everyone would lose.

"If you take a military force or invasion, you will render TSMC factory nonoperable," he said, adding that TSMC's sophisticated manufacturing facility "depends on the real-time connection with the outside world," and that "nobody can control TSMC by force."

Aυτό (το ότι οι Ταϊβανέζοι με τους Αμερικανούς θα ανατινάξουν ότι εργοστάσιο ημιαγωγών υπάρχει στην Ταϊβάν σε περίπτωση κινεζικής εισβολής) κυκλοφορεί εδώ και χρόνια στους διαδρόμους της διεθνούς μηχανικής, αν και το αντιμετώπιζα σκεπτικά.
Η TSMC το επιβεβαιώνει τώρα με τον πλέον επίσημο τρόπο.

Global race for chipmaking dominance

During the meeting between Liu and Pelosi, the two sides discussed the recently passed Chips and Science Act in the US aimed at reshoring the semiconductor supply chain. The new legislation includes a $52 billion (€51.1 billion) package to support chipmaking in the US, and TSMC will likely benefit from the program as a result of the $12 billion chip factory it's planning to build in Arizona.

The factory won't be the company's first on American soil. TSMC has already set up silicon-wafer production on the US West Coast, and a chip design and research center in Texas. Washington underscored, however, that subsidies will only flow if manufacturers are making sure sensitive chip technology doesn't end up in the hands of China.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-taiwan-semico ... a-62700581

[vallon]

άλλο ένα ιμπεριαλιστικό παιχνίδι των φίλων σου των αμερικανών

[pluton]

άλλο ένα ιμπεριαλιστικό παιχνίδι των φίλων σου των αμερικανών

Ένας ακόμα εχθρός των Αγγλοαμερικανων.... Και φίλος ποιών, των Κινέζων; Των Ρώσων; Των Παλαιστινίων ; Του ΙΣΙΣ;.....

Η απλά αντιαμερικανος;

Μπορείς να μου πεις γιατί όλοι οι λαοί της γης θέλουν να ζήσουν στην ΕΕ τις ΗΠΑ την Δύση; Και εσείς που τέλος πάντων ζείτε στο μέρος που είναι το όνειρο δισεκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων δεν περνετε την απόφαση να πάτε να ζήσετε στις χώρες των ονείρων σας, που είναι αυτό το μέρος σας κάνει ευτυχείς Καράκας; Μπουένος Άιρες, Τουνεζι, Μπαρμπαριά; Πηγαινεται να ευτυχησετε.

[Adminović]

Βρε βρε βρεεε

[Προέλλην]

Mε αυτά θέλουν να μπούν στην Ταϊβάν : https://navaldefence.gr/chinese-made-pa ... -problems/

[Προέλλην]

Taiwan tycoon to fund 3.3 million-strong army of ‘civilian warriors’ to defend against invasion

Robert Tsao, a microchip entrepreneur, pledges $32m to train and equip civil defence force to combat threat of Chinese attack

A Taiwanese tycoon has announced his plan to train 3.3 million “civilian warriors” and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m) of his own money.

The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China. On Thursday Taiwan’s defence ministry announced its soldiers had shot down a Chinese drone over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands.

At a press conference on Thursday, Tsao, 75, said the Chinese Communist party (CCP) threat to Taiwan was growing. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, he pledged funds to train “three million people in three years”. Working with the island’s civilian defence organisation, the Kuma Academy, 60% of the funds would go towards building an army of “warriors”, and 40% to training another 300,000 in how to shoot.

“If we can successfully resist China’s ambitions, we not only will be able to safeguard our homeland but make a big contribution to the world situation and the development of civilisation,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... t-invasion

[pluton]

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