The world is a strange place, where cause and effect are intertwined. Over the past year, Taiwan’s situation has suddenly improved a lot: foreign relations have improved greatly, Taiwan-owned factories in China have moved back to the country in large numbers, multinational corporations have moved in one after another, the stock market and property market are booming, average wages have increased, and the United States has sold a large number of advanced weapons, resulting in a sudden increase in defence capability.
Taiwan’s situation has improved, US-China relations have deteriorated into a catalyst, and Hong Kong’s anti-sending to China campaign has helped, but in the end, TSMC has played an inestimable role.
The irreplaceable nature of TSMC determines Taiwan’s value to the United States. If the KMT loses power, it is related to Ma Ying-jeou’s pro-communist policy; if Taiwan does not achieve democracy, the KMT will not lose its power, and the KMT’s loss of power is related to Lee Teng-hui; Lee Teng-hui studied in Japan and the United States and was influenced by Western culture. It is not always possible to follow through. It’s endless to trace back – the inevitable and the accidental are so clearly intertwined in history.
TSMC’s success, and Zhang Zhongmou related. Zhang Zhongmou in the United States to get a doctorate in electrical engineering, Texas Instruments Vice President, Texas Instruments to set up factories in Taiwan, the semiconductor industry downturn in 1974, Texas Instruments to lay off 200 to 300 people, Zhang Zhongmou back to Taiwan to deal with the Executive Yuan to meet with Sun Yunxuan. Sun Yunxuan was keen to inquire about the situation of the semiconductor industry, and met three times a week. After his return to the U.S., Zhang continued to send relevant information to President Sun.
In 1982, when Zhang returned to Taiwan to visit his family, Sun Yunxuan asked him to return to Taiwan to serve as president of ITRI or as his own personal advisor, but Zhang refused, and in 1985 he was recruited by Taiwan to return to Taiwan as president of ITRI.
Without Sun Yunxuan, there would have been no Zhang Zhongmou, and without Zhang Zhongmou’s return to Taiwan, there would be no TSMC, and without TSMC, Taiwan would be in a different state today. The U.S. and China are at loggerheads, and TSMC has become a big bargaining chip.
Sun Yunxuan was a major contributor to the take-off of Taiwan’s economy. He was responsible for all of Taiwan’s top 10 economic miracles, which is why people in Taiwan call him the “eternal executive director”. Sun Yunxuan graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology, and Taiwan is ruled by experts, which is different from the workers, peasants and soldiers of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1974, before Mao Zedong went to meet Karl Marx, the mainland was in chaos, and the president of the Taiwan administration was already concerned about semiconductors, so it’s no coincidence that Taiwan is where it is today.
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