Amid a frenzied global hunt for microchips and souring Western ties with China, Taiwan quietly enhanced its international profile on Thursday during landmark trade talks with the European Union. Discussions, unsurprisingly, focused on semiconductors. Taiwan produces 90 per cent of the world’s most advanced chips, which will power the industries of the future, and Europe is desperately seeking the know-how to build a chip supply chain of its own. But perhaps more important was the symbolism: this was the first ministerial-level trade talks between Taipei and Brussels, co-chaired by the EU’s director general of trade, Sabine Weyand, and Taiwan’s minister…