Taiwan chip industry emerges as battlefront in U.S.-China showdown

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At risk if conflict erupts over Taiwan would be access to the chips that power almost all advanced military and civilian technologies, including mobile phones and the medical diagnostic tools that have been critical in fighting COVID-19

The island dominates production of the chips that power almost all advanced civilian and military technologies. That leaves the U.S. and Chinese economies extremely reliant on plants that would be in the line of fire in an attack on Taiwan.

It's a vulnerability stoking alarm in Washington.
 

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