TAIPEI ¨C Taiwan wants to ensure its partners have reliable supplies of semiconductors, or ¡°democracy chips,¡± President Tsai Ing-wen told the governor of the U.S. state of Indiana on Monday, saying China¡¯s threats mean fellow democracies have to cooperate.
Gov. Eric Holcomb is making the third trip to Taiwan this month by a U.S. delegation after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited briefly, infuriating China, which views Taiwan as its own territory.
A week after Pelosi¡¯s visit, five U.S. lawmakers, led by Sen. Ed Markey, visited Taiwan.
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