May 10, 2021 The growing tensions between China and Taiwan could have serious implications for India and Japan besides the rest of the world. The China-Taiwan conflict and the Biden administration’s renewed concerns over the stability of the cross-strait (which separates the Chinese mainland from the Taiwan island) seem to be destabilizing not only the security architecture in the Indo–Pacific but also the global semiconductor industry that is core to every field, from defense to agriculture. Taiwanese Coast Guards on May 8 seized a Chinese offshore supply vessel and its 12 crew members trespassing into Taiwanese waters off the coast of Penghu.