William Hague on Taiwan and the fight for the world’s most critical technology
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Our modern world is built on chips; they control everything from our cars to the stock market, dishwashers to missile systems, computers to - potentially soon - augmented humans. But with China and America battling for control over production - and about ninety percent of advanced chips made in geo-politically sensitive Taiwan - how secure is the future of our world?
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Guest: Chris Miller, author of Chip War: the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology and Professor of International History at Tufts University in Boston.
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