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Although China President Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rhetoric toward Taiwan—home of global semiconductor giant TSMC—is a fundamental factor in the strained relationship, the US is fanning the flames.

The survey was conducted in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Nordics, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

TSMC is building chip factories in the US, Japan, and Europe while investing 1.86 trillion New Taiwan dollars ($60.4 billion) in a new Taiwanese factory. A year too late: None of these new chip factories is expected to contribute to global supplies until they go online in 2024. Until then, supply chain scarcity will continue drive up product pricing.

China, United Arab Emirates, and Taiwan tied for second lowest in this metric at 1:25 daily. Chart Overview by Country. Indonesia. Malaysia. Singapore. Thailand. Vietnam.

Lack of access to important chipmaking technology could widen the innovation gap between China and Taiwan, the US, and South Korea. This article originally appeared in Insider Intelligence's Connectivity & Tech Briefing—a daily recap of top stories reshaping the technology industry. Subscribe to have more hard-hitting takeaways delivered to your inbox daily. Are you a client? Click here to subscribe.

The list of backtracking countries included numerous key markets: Brazil; Canada; five markets in Western Europe (the UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy); and five markets in Asia-Pacific (South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam). Before 2022, this kind of backtracking had never happened before anywhere.

So Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ASML, Samsung Electronics, AMD, Qualcomm, Micron, Intel and SK Hynix. And Tripp Mickle and Joe Rennison of The New York Times were noting just 12 companies have led the S&P 500 by market valuation since the index was created 100 years ago.

Asia-Pacific is well represented in the top 10, with the presence of Taiwan and South Korea along with China, Australia, and New Zealand. However, Japan and the countries of Southeast Asia are at the opposite end of the rankings. Digital transformation is at very different stages across the region.

Elon Musk’s reign over Twitter stirs chaos and user losses in Asia-Pacific. The region is propping up Facebook user growth that is flagging in most of the world. And TikTok is looming large among marketers as its popularity skyrockets.

Apple’s MacBook mostly dodged holiday weakness a few quarters ago, but shipments fell 40.5% compared to the first three months of 2022. This trend could continue throughout the year.

Because Sam Sabin of Axios was writing that this year's worldwide threats assessment, is where intelligence officials testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, warn that China remains the "most active and persistent cyber threat to the US government," saying in large part because if there is a major conflict between the US and China, like the Chinese invasion of Taiwan, he says Beijing would pursue

Of the 13 teams that are not UN-recognized countries, four our geopolitically-fraught areas, places like Hong Kong, Palestine, Kosovo, and Taiwan. The other nine of the teams are island regions that sought recognition from the IOC prior to 1996. They're all territories of or linked to nations recognized by the UN, but still participate separately at the Olympics.