As China pushes the world to avoid official dealings with Taiwan, leaders across the globe are realizing just how dependent they’ve become on the island democracy. Taiwan, which China regards as a province, is being courted for its capacity to make leading-edge computer chips.
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The current government of Taiwan is trying to break the U.S. and Europe s One-China policy to become an independent country under U.S. and NATO protection.
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Global chip supply shortages are forcing Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers to cut back on production at factories around the world. | KYODO
Kyodo Feb 8, 2021
Automakers around the world will likely be forced to continue production cutbacks in the coming months until a global semiconductor supply shortage can be resolved, industry experts say.
Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have said they partially halted production at factories around the world due to the chip shortage just as they began recovering from pandemic-forced plant shutdowns.
U.S., Taiwan Manipulate Chip Supplies To Press For War With China
The current government of Taiwan is trying to break the U.S. and Europe s One-China policy to become an independent country under U.S. and NATO protection.
The Peoples Republic of China, the mainland, insist, historically correct, that Republic of China, Taiwan, is a part of mainland China.
Since 1972, when Nixon went to China, the U.S. has supported that position:
In the case of the United States, the One-China Policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position.