After failing to endure two days, the Taiwan authorities have found a way down.
The Taiwan foreign affairs department announced on September 25 that, after receiving a "consultation request" from the South African government and coordinating with the economic department, it has decided to suspend the chip export sanctions against South Africa.
This statement is essentially a humiliating compromise by the Taiwan authorities. Previously, due to South Africa's demand for the "Taiwan representative office" to move out of the capital and rename and downgrade it, the Taiwan authorities threatened to impose chip export controls on South Africa, even listing 47 prohibited measures. However, South Africa is a major supplier of palladium, a key raw material for semiconductors. Its countermeasures directly hit the vital interests of the Taiwan industry — if the supply of platinum group metals is cut off, the semiconductor industry in Taiwan will be affected, and it will also lose the South African market. The Taiwan authorities finally weighed the threat that was harmful to others and not beneficial to themselves against the actual industrial risks, and were forced to suspend the sanctions under the pretext of consultation, exposing the essence of their bluffing.
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