Taiwan Is the Key to AI Dominance
Taiwan is essential to U.S. artificial intelligence leadership. As the primary industrial base for AI technology, the island is critical to winning the century's defining technological race against China.
By: David Feith
As President Trump prepares for his summit with Xi Jinping, Taiwan is often described as one more negotiable item in a crowded U.S.-China agenda that also includes tariffs, rare earths, Iran, fentanyl and export controls. That is a mistake.
A country determined to win the defining technological race of the century can’t allow its chief rival to control the industrial base on which that race depends.
Taiwan isn’t merely another file in the U.S.-China relationship. It has grown beyond even its traditional role as a lonely outpost for democracy and a vital test of American strategic credibility. Thanks to tech and market developments so recent that they were largely invisible during Mr. Trump’s first term, the island is now also the factory floor for U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.
