FOX News: Global microchip shortage has China eyeing Taiwan
Some worry China may use military force to seize Taiwan and its microchip industry
One hundred miles off the coast of China is the largest and most sophisticated microchip maker in the world – Taiwan. These chips power the world's cars, phones, and computers.
China consumes more than half of them and wants more as its economy grows and is increasingly casting an eye to their island neighbor to the east to get them – some worry by military force one day.
"Whoever controls the design and production of these microchips, they'll set the course for the 21st century," said Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank Center for a New American Security.
"By gaining control over Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, China would control the global market," Rasser said. "They would have access to the most advanced manufacturing capabilities and that is even more valuable than controlling the world's oil."
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WNU Editor: China's reasons for wanting to absorb Taiwan and crush any notions of independence have more to do with Chinese nationalism and a belief in its manifest destiny to regain all the territory that China had controlled in its history.
Taiwan's chip factories are a concern for Chinese businesses that are dependent on them, but in Beijing itself the issue of Taiwan dominating the global chip market is not even on their radar. What is on Beijing's radar is Taiwan openly declaring that they are independent from China.
