{"id":143406,"date":"2022-08-02T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/chipmaking-giant-tsmc-non-operable-if-china-invades-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:22:39","slug":"chipmaking-giant-tsmc-non-operable-if-china-invades-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/chipmaking-giant-tsmc-non-operable-if-china-invades-taiwan","title":{"rendered":"Chipmaking giant TSMC \u2018non-operable\u2019 if China invades Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chipmaking-giant-tsmc-non-operable-if-china-invades-taiwan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAIPEI (Taiwan News) \u2014 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Chairman Mark Liu (\u5289\u5fb7\u97f3) has warned that the economies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will plunge into turmoil should China invade Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2022\/07\/31\/exp-gps-0731-mark-liu-taiwan-semiconductors.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> on Monday (Aug. 1) published footage of a video interview with Liu, titled \u201cCan China afford to attack Taiwan?\u201d in which Liu noted chipmaking will no longer be \u201cthe most important thing we should be worried about\u201d if Beijing were to attack Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u201cNobody can control TSMC by force,\u201d Liu said, when asked about the company\u2019s perceived reputation as a \u201cshield\u201d given its significance. TSMC factories will be rendered \u201cnon-operable\u201d in the event of a Chinese attack because the sophisticated manufacturing facilities depend on real-time connections with the outside world, with Europe, U.S., and Japan, he reckoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI (Taiwan News) \u2014 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Chairman Mark Liu (\u5289\u5fb7\u97f3) has warned that the economies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will plunge into turmoil should China invade Taiwan. CNN on Monday (Aug. 1) published footage of a video interview with Liu, titled \u201cCan China afford to attack Taiwan?\u201d in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}