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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, why it's so important to break ourselves from our Chinese Chip Addiction.

I went all the way to Germany to profile a major movement.

It has to do with our unhealthy addiction to Chinese chips.

And by that, I mean computer chips.

We need to use them every day in our cars, our smartphones, all kinds of devices.

And the supply chain problems revealed during the covid shutdowns, they exposed our unwise

reliance on an adversary for something so important.

Sunday on Full Measure, that's November 13th, I'll have my full report on this topic.

It turns out that about 80% of these crucial chips are made in China, about 10% in Europe

and about 10% in the US.

Now Taiwan, which is considered a Chinese region, makes two thirds of the global supply.

With current tensions between Taiwan and China, China controlling the island chain of Taiwan,

the chip making imbalance poses national defense concerns here.

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