Yes, more or less, this thread is about Chinese activities to improve their semiconductor industry and become independent. (When they are independent, it is a big threat to all of us) They are using all methods in the book from legal purchase to industrial espionage. If you read any appropriate news article please post it here.
07FEB2021 Taiwan should join semiconductor alliance against China: analyst
Wang also warned that Taiwan should beware of China’s efforts to poach talent, given the latter’s goal of becoming 70 percent self-sufficient in chip production by 2025. “Judging from the past experience, China’s poaching efforts will only increase,” he said.
According to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review in August 2020, China succeeded in luring more than 100 TSMC engineers in the span of just one year, offering them double the amount they were earning in Taiwan. China has redoubled its efforts to develop its semiconductor industry, since U.S. sanctions have restricted its ability to acquire semiconductor chips, Wang said.
Meanwhile, the American semiconductor industry has been urging the new administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to form a semiconductor alliance with like-minded countries to prevent tech espionage by China, he said. The Taiwan government should guide the country’s tech companies to join such an alliance, in order to protect Taiwan’s technological advantage and national strategic security, Wang said.
https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202102070010