The semiconductor industry is Taiwan’s biggest sector in terms of power use.
Photographer: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg
Hormuz Crisis Shows Gaps in Taiwan’s High-Tech ‘Silicon Shield’
Dominance in chip manufacturing has made it prosperous — and highly vulnerable.
The breakwater stretches out to sea from the sprawling Kaohsiung port in southern Taiwan. Normally, it’s crowded with massive tankers ferrying liquefied natural gas from Qatar to be stored in the bulbous white tanks that dot the shoreline.
These are not normal times, though, and not a single shipment from Qatar has docked at the Yongan terminal since early March after the Strait of Hormuz was shuttered.