Don’t ignore China’s opposition to ‘Chip 4’
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Lee Wang-hwi
The author is a professor of political science at Ajou University.

China strongly resists the so-called Chip 4 alliance envisioned by the United States to muster Asian chip makers of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan in the chip supply chain. The Chinese foreign and commerce ministries criticized the move as a plot to exclude China from the semiconductor value chain and thus goes against the free trade order. China’s Global Times warned that South Korea could face retaliation as it did in the wake of deploying the U.S.-led Thaad missile defense system in spite of Beijing’s strong protest.