Taiwan Raids Chinese Firms in Latest Crackdown on Beijing’s Poaching of Chip Talent

A visitor walks past a booth featuring micropchip testing during the first day of the three-day Semicon semiconductor exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Centre in Taipei, Taiwan, on September 30, 2009. PATRICK LIN/AFP via Getty Images

Taiwan authorities this week raided 10 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching chip engineers and other tech talents, the island’s investigation bureau said on May 26.

“The illegal poaching of Taiwan’s high-tech talent by Chinese companies has severely impacted our international competitiveness and endangered our national security,” the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said in an online statement.