China’s Theft of Taiwan’s Technology Could Hasten Timeline for Invasion: Analysts

A Taiwanese report indicates that the Chinese regime is seeking to steal core technologies behind the island’s most advanced chips.

A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at its office in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Taipei’s latest national security report shows that Beijing is exploiting Taiwan as a backdoor to circumvent Western technology restrictions, a tactic experts warn could heighten the risk of an armed invasion.

The National Security Bureau of Taiwan submitted its security assessment to Taiwan’s legislature—officially known as the Legislative Yuan—on April 6, indicating that the Chinese regime is targeting the island’s artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor industries to relocate production to China.