Taiwan caught in a great game thanks to microchips TAIPEI, Taiwan – China’s warship rehearsing a blockade of Taiwan this month, they simulated a scenario that busy global leaders and policymakers worry about: not war, but the disruption of electronic supply chains that are make the modern world work. Taiwan’s biggest trading partners – including China, the United States, Europe and Japan – have different ideas about the self-ruled island’s political future, but they all share something in common. in a desire to expand their cutting-edge semiconductor industry. Start with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Visit In early August, a series of...