We live here
There is a night market in Taipei’s Shilin District that has been open since 1913. It survived Japanese colonization, the KMT’s martial law, the 1996 missile crisis, and the last three decades of strategic ambiguity....
The spreadsheet at the bottom of every scenario
The CSIS war game: two aircraft carriers sunk, nine hundred aircraft destroyed, thousands of American dead, Japan’s Okinawa bases devastated, TSMC’s fabs inoperable, global recession....
The grid coordinate
TSMC fabricates over 90 percent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Every chip inside the phones, servers, weapons systems, and AI processors reshaping every industry comes from a handful of fabs in Hsinchu, within range of Chinese ballistic missiles....
Imagine you are a semiconductor fab
Imagine you are the most valuable factory on earth. You sit on an island one hundred miles from a military that has promised to take it back, in a country that has never declared independence, protected by a superpower that has never said...