a factory for US's semiconductor needs.  The US is lucky to chance into a Tsai Ing-Wen.  After years of proping up Taiwanese NGOs to influence Taiwanese to hate China, they lucked into it in 2016. An idiot with no idea about the gravity of the whole situation and embraced the Western woke ideas that have no relevance whatsoever in Taiwan.  

I think in the second term of the Obama administration,  the US weaponized "wokesim".  Perhaps that the reason why Trump got elected in reaction to that.  I think Wokeism as a weapon worked in western Europe and some some strange reason, Taiwan. Not anywhere elase.