by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade
⚡ TL;DRTaiwan’s information and communications technology exports are among the most concentrated and consequential trade flows in the world — but the official numbers understate the island’s role, because Taiwanese content sits inside products...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade
⚡ TL;DRTaiwan’s semiconductor concentration has turned chips into geopolitics: export controls restricting Chinese access to advanced technology, subsidy races across three continents, and a continuing argument about whether the island’s...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade
⚡ TL;DRThe New Southbound Policy was Taiwan’s attempt to reduce economic dependence on mainland China by deepening ties with Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australasia — a policy that achieved modest results on its own terms and was then overtaken by...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade
⚡ TL;DRTSMC is building fabs in Arizona, Japan and Germany under the largest industrial subsidy programmes in decades — a diversification driven by customer and government demand that costs far more than manufacturing at home, proceeds unevenly by...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade
⚡ TL;DRTaiwanese companies built the manufacturing base of mainland China and became dependent on it — a thirty-year integration that made both economies richer and is now being partially unwound under tariff pressure, export controls and customer...
