Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

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derekullo I'm surprised they have any trade between them with the sharp rhetoric exchanges and their shared history. I guess ironically with capitalism they can find common ground. Reply

bit_user derekullo said: I'm surprised they have any trade between them with the sharp rhetoric exchanges and their shared history. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that both had historical claims to be part of one China. After the Communist revolution, the old government migrated to Taiwan but never relinquished its claim as the legitimate rulers of China. For its part, the mainland also never saw Taiwan as separate. So, when both sides agreed on Taiwan being part of China, then it would seem that you don't really have much reason or rationale for imposing restrictions on trade, movement of people, property ownership, etc. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but that's how I've made sense of their relationship. derekullo said: I guess ironically with capitalism they can find common ground. Yeah, the more trade developed, the more mutually beneficial it became and that probably overruled political reasons to erect barriers. Another factor might be that, for the past couple decades, Taiwan worried imposing barriers would be seen as antagonistic and could provoke a reaction by the mainland. Once Taiwan went along with restricting certain Chinese entities from using TSMC, I think that weakened resistance to other restrictions. Also, what seems to be changing now is that the mainland is already on a path towards increased intervention, so I guess they're at a point where they feel like there's no longer much to be lost by imposing further restrictions. Reply

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