This past week, the Taiwanese government said China aims to normalize its military pressure on the island — which escalated after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited in August — with its largest military drill ever.
Lesley Stahl: When Speaker Pelosi was here, China, we're told, banned 1,000 products. Taiwanese products. A lot from your region down here.Lesley Stahl: Is there any grouper here? But suddenly in June, Beijing banned Taiwan's grouper, devastating the fishermen. Boxes and boxes of fish piled up. China also went after pineapples, crushing farmers like this young couple.Man Farmer: It devastated us. Our pineapples got stuck in Taiwan and we lost $60,000 U.S. dollars.
China relies on these as does the rest of the world for things like iPhones, advanced computers, and car components. 91-year-old Morris Chang, TSMC's founder, explains why a lot of people here think the chips protect them from Xi Jinping's attacking.Lesley Stahl: I've heard this expression, Silicon Shield or Chip Shield, talking about your company.
And yet, in 2019, China broke a similar promise to Hong Kong. Protests led to beatings, arrests, and stripping of democratic rights. It hit home in Taiwan and led to President Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the aggressively anti-reunification party, winning re-election in a landslide. Asked if they're in denial, or apathetic, a Taiwanese writer said it's kind of like global warming:"you know it's there's and it's going to get worse… but mostly people go about their lives. What can one individual really do?" But then the taiwanese watched the Ukrainians stand up to the Russians. It so inspired Jack Yao, a young Taipei coffee vendor, that he went there to help the fight.
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