Taiwan’s microchip dominance is Ground Zero in growing U.S.-China Cold War

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwanese soldiers go through a drill as Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen visits a camp in Hualien, in eastern Taiwan on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday that ...The second in a three-part series, Taiwan in the Crosshairs examines how the island and its nearly 24 million people are holding up under pressure from Beijing’s stepped-up diplomatic and military intimidation campaign.

HSINCHU, Taiwan — Hulking white factory buildings tower over the plush vegetation lining the road that snakes through this city, a place long known as Taiwan’s “Silicon Valley,” but increasingly identified as ground zero in…