Name: Taiwan To Up U.S. Investment After Trump Tariff Threats | TaiwanPlus News
Uploaded: 2025-02-18T04:21:03.000Z
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

US president Donald Trump is doubling down on his pledge to resolve what he calls unfair trade practices with foreign countries.

Adverbs of manner

Announcing a closely watched plan for reciprocal tariffs, a price match on what other countries are charging American goods.

It's a move that could add to inflation and hurt US customers, while also sparking a multi-front trade war with allies and partners including Taiwan.

Trump has been eyeing Taiwan's unmatched dominance in computer chips, led by TSMC.

He's repeatedly accused Taiwan of stealing the critical tech from the US, and could slap separate tariffs on imported chips.

We had Intel, we had these great companies that did so well and it was taken from us.

If they don't bring it back, we're not going to be very happy.

Taiwan's president Lai Ching-te has convened senior officials to discuss Trump's latest comments.

But has maintained that as the world's most powerful semiconductor country, Taiwan has the ability and willingness to communicate with its partners.

In light of President Trump's concerns about our country's semiconductor industry, the government will carefully respond.

The government will also strengthen guidance and encourage Taiwanese companies to invest more in the United States.

Despite not having diplomatic ties, the US is Taiwan's main arms supplier.

A critical relationship for Taiwan's national security against the Chinese threat of invasion.

Taipei has already sent officials to Washington, including Deputy Economy Minister Cynthia Jang, to quote clarify that Taiwan did not steal American chip business.

I suspect that that's all theater, I suspect that's all theater and not real.

Uh, because there are only two people that are running the show right now.

It's really the president and and Peter Navarro.

And I'm really, really skeptical that that the two deputy ministers are are going to be able to talk to either of them.

I have this nagging uneasy feeling that Taiwan is not taking this seriously and they're thinking about it as really public relations and not like a real threat.

Something Taiwan could do is address its trade surplus with the US, which jumped over 80% last year, selling more goods to the US than it bought by almost $65 billion.

It's a gap that's also landed Taiwan on Trump's radar.

One way Taipei can do this is by letting the value of its currency appreciate, making it cheaper for Taiwan to import more from the rest of the world.

It also makes its exports more expensive, which eventually brings trade back into balance.

That the central bank is generating money by having a low low exchange rate.

Central bank is very closed and and economists in Taiwan.

We have talk uh talk about this for a long time.

It's actually protected, it's protected by the government.

It has to be like from legislative's point of view that there should be a new law to grant more independence.

In the face of Trump's aggressive economic policy to settle its trade gaps with other countries, Taiwan may have to look inward and change some of its ways to maintain its critical relationship with the US.