At a July 8 briefing, the Taiwan Affairs Office commented on reports that TSMC
will inject $20bn into its U.S. unit to build a 12‑inch wafer fab and an
advanced packaging plant. The office noted this is the sixth approval by Taiwan
economic authorities for TSMC's U.S. investments, bringing cumulative approval
investment to $44bn, and said the move has heightened island concern that TSMC
could become an "American TSMC." Spokesperson Chen Binhua accused the DPP of
treating TSMC's U.S. investment as a token of alignment with the U.S.,
abandoning Taiwan's industrial base and sacrificing industrial interests to
secure U.S. support, and warned the further this course continues the more
public worries will be realized.
