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The Story

William Hague on Taiwan and the fight for the world’s most critical technology

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🗓️ 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.

Host: William Hague.

Producer: Olivia Case.

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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm William Haig. The entire world's tech sector essentially depends on one pretty small island.

1:20.0

If it were knocked offline, we'd face catastrophic disruptions to global manufacturing.

1:26.4

It would be the greatest economic calamity we've experienced, I think, since the Great Depression.

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The story today, Taiwan, and the book Chip War,

1:49.0

which I've spent the last decade researching and writing to understand how chips have shaped the world that we live in.

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So we wouldn't be able to fly anywhere.

1:57.7

We probably couldn't operate our kitchen, we couldn't drive a car, really modern life as we know it would come to a halt, wouldn't it, without chips?

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