Microchips are in your car, your microwave, there might even be one in your kettle they run everything. And the best microchips are made by TSMC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
TSMC chips have put Western tech companies and militaries streets ahead of China, and China is not happy about it. TSMC is so important, that the world could go to war over it.
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