U.S.-China faceoff means Taiwan needs closer links with neighbors

Washington's decoupling push poses threat to island's resilience

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Engineers at Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute in Hsinchu: Taiwan's chip manufacturing model was built up over decades. © Reuters

Syaru Shirley Lin is founder and chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation in Taipei, a research professor with the University of Virginia's Miller Center and a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's foreign policy program.

Taiwan's long-standing economic model of seeking success through innovation and integration into global supply chains is becoming difficult to sustain as the U.S. and China increasingly work to decouple from each other.

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