Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

by Orville Schell (editor), Larry Diamond (Editor), James O. Ellis (Editor)

The United States, Taiwan, and China are bound within a "silicon triangle." Semiconductors link our geopolitics, our ongoing economic prosperity, and our technological competitiveness. This book draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary Hoover Institution–Asia Society working group of technologists, economists, military strategists, industry players, and regional policy experts to contemplate the dynamic global supply chain in semiconductors—one in which US industry faces growing vulnerabilities, China aggressively promotes home-grown semiconductor mastery, and Taiwan finds itself with a crucial monopoly on high-end logic chips sought by buyers globally. Silicon Triangle seeks to present a balanced view of how policies of the United States and its partners around semiconductors can increase the resilience of shared supply chains—and contribute to deterring conflict in the Taiwan Strait.

Genres: China, Politics, Technology, Economics

403 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2023

About the author

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schell was born in New York City, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) at University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s.

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book On Taiwan

Some truly impressive recommendations for reducing intellectual property theft by China and strengthening relationships with key players and inventors in the semiconductor space.

A very good and timely read too, having read this during the week of the Taiwan elections in 2024.

Definitely check this book out if you too are interested in foreign policy and world technology.

4.8/5