The head of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security has vowed to fight “Taiwan independence,” calling on the Chinese public to support Beijing’s plan to, as he said, “reunify” the island.
A democratic, self-ruled island, Taiwan is home to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), a major supplier of advanced semiconductors to a number of U.S. tech and defense manufacturers.
The Chinese regime claims the island as its own, however, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution. China’s communist regime has never walked back its threats of using force to take control of the island.