“Chip War”

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I have made some progress reading Chip War, by Chris Miller, which the No Strings Attached Book Club will discuss in June. I expect to have more to say later; let it suffice that Miller explains how there is an elaborate and potentially vulnerable supply chain involved in the production of integrated circuit chips, and of the equipment needed to make the chips themselves. This is globalization at its finest, so long as things function, with industries in different countries collaborating to accomplish what no single country is large enough to do equally well for itself. On the other hand, if China invades Taiwan, or even manages one successful missile strike on a key factory there, the whole world could have major problems.