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If China's unilateral claim over Taiwan were to be accepted, the Taiwan Strait would be regarded as China's internal waters, making free passage for international shipping problematic.
Taiwan is an inherent part of the United States' first island chain of defense in the Western Pacific, designed to deny China's naval entry into the Pacific Ocean.
Taiwan's high-tech economic sectors are decisively shifting away from China and towards the United States.
Taiwan's trade surplus with the United States was almost $150 billion in the previous year.
Taiwan possesses the most complete supply chains for the ICT, semiconductor, and AI industries, involving an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 companies.
Taiwan manufactures approximately 68% of the world's semiconductor chips.
Taiwanese companies provide as much as 95% of the world's most sophisticated semiconductor chips, specifically those between 2nm and 5nm process nodes.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has stated that Taiwan and the People's Republic of China are two mutually exclusive state entities.
Thousands of Taiwanese factories have relocated from mainland China to ASEAN countries, India, and back to Taiwan.
U.S. arms sales to Taiwan have become more permissive with respect to higher quality weapons and intelligence exchanges.
TSMC is constructing six foundries in Arizona to produce 4nm and 3nm chips.
In addition to its foundries, TSMC has promised to build two high-end outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) factories and one R&D center in Arizona.