U.S. Semiconductor Policy Toward Taiwan During the Joe Biden Administration and the Path of Influence

Abstract

The Biden administration has enacted a series of industrial policies related to sup-ply chain restructuring since it came to power, with high-tech industries and advanced technologies as the core of its policies. The U.S. promotes the re-shoring of the semiconductor supply chain and strengthens semiconductor industry cooperation with Taiwan through positive subsidy investment and reverse control constraints, which serves its own political and eco-nomic interests and the hegemonic logic of international competition under the pretext of strengthening the security and resilience of the global supply chain. The implementation path of the Biden administration's industrial policy toward Taiwan mainly includes the path of economic interests, the path of national (regional) security and the path of great power hegemony, which has a profound impact on the economic pattern, the political pattern and the power pattern of the Taiwan region. In general, the U.S. industrial policy toward Taiwan has caused the advantages of Taiwan's semiconductor industry to shrink, prompting chal-lenges to Taiwan's sustainable economic development; the U.S. has used Taiwan as an important strategic tool in the com-petition between the U.S. and China, pushing the ten-sion in the Taiwan Straits to become more and more intense; and the U.S.'s economic and political coercion and coercion of Taiwan has made Taiwan more dependent on the U.S. in the international power pattern and deprived it of more autonomy.