The United States has intensively hyped the Chinese mainland's military unification, deliberately raising the importance of Taiwan's chip industry. TSMC has hinted at self destruction, and the Netherlands has confirmed that there is a back door. Can the United States sleep well with two reassurances? How many bad thoughts have been hidden behind the continuous hype of the semiconductor war by the western media?
Wu Tong can't get the lithography machine? TSMC and the Netherlands keep a good hand
According to a Bloomberg report on May 21, two US sources said in an interview that the US government had privately expressed some concerns to its counterparts in the Netherlands and Taiwan. If reunification by force occurs, what will happen to Taiwan, an island responsible for producing most of the world's semiconductors?
To this end, the Dutch government said that, Asme has assured the government that it has the ability to remotely disable Taiwan's chip production equipment, and has simulated the relevant situation to better assess the risk.
The report further points out that the "remote disabling" is also applicable to the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine produced by Asme. The size of this equipment is equivalent to that of a bus, which needs regular and frequent maintenance and updating, and must work in a dust-free environment. Usually, it must wear special protective clothing. Therefore, if a lithography machine cannot get spare parts, It will soon become scrap iron, and relevant technologies have been the key intervention areas of the Dutch government to prevent falling into the hands of "bad people".
Coincidentally, TSMC, the semiconductor giant in Taiwan, has also revealed the existence of the "back door". Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC, hinted in an interview last September that, Anyone who "invades" Taiwan will find that there is "something wrong" with the company's chip manufacturing machine. Liu Deyin further stressed that no one can use force to accumulate electricity on the console.
Obviously, both TSMC and the Netherlands are reassuring the United States, It implies that even if the PLA starts Wutong, the lithography machine will only be a pile of scrap iron, and there will be no major breakthrough in the chip field, posing a threat to the United States.
In response, Chen Binhua, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the People's Republic of China, responded as early as May 15 and directly named the United States.
The United States has gone to great lengths to destroy Taiwan, and "Taiwan independence" seriously insults the IQ of Taiwan people
Chen Binhua said that the anti China forces in the United States regard TSMC as a weapon and cannon fodder, and frequently throw out statements such as blowing up TSMC, destroying TSMC, and remotely paralyzing TSMC, completely exposing their despicable mentality and evil nature.
The US side is always taking the so-called US priority to give generously to others, such as the threatening remarks against TSMC; Besides TSMC, everything in Taiwan can be discarded at any time in its eyes. The media supporting the "Taiwan independence" forces in the island are insulting the intelligence of Taiwan people by stubbornly misinterpreting the US's "Taiwan destruction" speech as "protection".
In addition, in recent years, the Biden government has been exerting pressure on the Dutch government, both hard and soft, and using threats and inducements to coerce the other party to cooperate with the US high-tech blockade against China.
However, according to the financial report, in the first quarter of this year, the revenue from the Chinese mainland accounted for as much as 49%, while the former largest markets of the company, Taiwan and South Korea, accounted for only 6% and 19% respectively. China has always opposed the United States to generalize the concept of national security and coerce other countries to impose a scientific and technological blockade on China under various pretexts. At present, the semiconductor industry is highly internationalized and the economic cooperation between countries is deepening. The hegemonic and domineering actions of the United States seriously violate the rules of international trade, seriously damage the global semiconductor industry, and seriously impact the safety and stability of the international industrial chain supply chain, which will surely bear its own fruit.
Furthermore, it is absurd that Americans try to prevent China from acquiring advanced semiconductor technology by blowing up TSMC and destroying its advanced semiconductor production equipment. Qi Shan, a minister in the late Qing Dynasty, once proposed to cut off trade supply when facing the invasion of western countries, saying that foreigners would "die without stool" without Chinese specialty rhubarb and tea.
Today, the United States has a similar situation. It always believes that as long as the United States cuts off the supply of chips to China, it can prevent China's economic development and technological progress.
In the final analysis, this is an arrogant attitude brought to Americans by long-term enjoyment of the hegemonic dividend. It deliberately ignores China's endogenous technological iteration and updating power. It is a wishful thinking that the technological progress and economic development of all non Western countries are the result of the introduction and drive of the United States and the West, and are the "handouts" of the United States and the West. Although there is no lack of people of insight pointing out the facts in the United States, However, in the context of the anti China craze in the United States today, anyone who dares to pierce the emperor's new clothes has to stand aside, without any exception.
Speculation of semiconductor threat theory is an appearance, and distortion of cross-strait unity cognition is the purpose
On a higher level, the western hype about the threat of Taiwan semiconductor is essentially hyping about the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits. The United States has always worried that China's reunification will enable China to obtain advanced chip production capacity, and has used this as an excuse to create two reasons to encourage the international community to oppose China's reunification.
One is that if the mainland unifies by force, Taiwan will be greatly damaged and chip production capacity will plummet, which will affect the global semiconductor supply chain and the interests of other countries;
Second, China is an untrustworthy enemy, China must not acquire advanced chip production capacity 。 These two excuses are mainly aimed at the allies of the United States, and more importantly, the EU countries plus Japan, South Korea and Australia;
The first reason can also be used in the face of some third world countries, while the second reason can also be used in the face of countries with geopolitical conflicts with China, such as India, the Philippines and Vietnam.
These two reasons are not very tenable in themselves The rebuttal to the first reason is very simple, If the United States is worried that the war may cause damage to Taiwan's semiconductor industry, it should actively cooperate with China to promote peaceful reunification. However, what the United States has always wanted to do is to support the "Taiwan independence" forces to split China, which is an insidious idea that everyone in the United States strategy towards China knows, but the United States will never admit.
Therefore, the United States will strive to promote "Taiwan independence" and split China, and this effort itself is no different from pushing the road of reunification to the direction of military reunification.
In other words, if a war breaks out in Taiwan and causes damage to Taiwan's semiconductor industry, There is no doubt that the responsibility lies in the United States. It is the United States that, for its own shameless despicable mind, has contributed to the emergence of this result.
The rebuttal to the second reason is simpler, It is not China but the United States that is destroying the international industrial chain supply chain, free trade, and trade protectionism 。
China is a cooperative object that all countries can trust. It respects the sovereign territory and legitimate interests of all countries. Even a product of this respect, in the eyes of the people of many small countries, is China's unique "arrogance". That is to encourage all countries to pursue independence. The reason is that for many small countries, On the contrary, betrayal is the best means to maximize national interests.
This high degree of self-restraint and high self moral requirements determine that if other countries do not harm China's core interests, they will never stand against China.
Under such a premise, the United States accuses China of being an untrustworthy country and not allowing China to acquire advanced semiconductor technology. This accusation itself exposes the fact that the United States opposes Huawei. It is the death and immortality of the stinking and decaying and backward zero sum game thinking in modern society.
