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On a drizzly December morning in Taipei, the most pressing issue in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan was not the dozens of Chinese military aircraft and vessels that had stalked through the Taiwan Strait the previous weekend, but a new semiconductor factory that was under construction an ocean away.
Inside one of the Yuan’s austere meeting rooms, opposition politician Chiu Chen-yuan grilled foreign minister Joseph Wu about the latest unstoppable expansion of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur
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