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Taiwan Aims to Ensure Its Security With Tech Export Controls
Taiwan is trying to ensure that technology built domestically is not used to compromise the security of its people by imposing certain export curbs on a number of major Chinese companies.
'This has been a very challenging conversation between governments and private businesses,' Taiwanese Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim told reporters in Taipei on Friday in response to a question about Taipei's decision to blacklist leading Chinese chip firms. 'But we have generally aligned in understanding that ultimately, export control is to ensure that technology innovated, developed, and produced in Taiwan, is not used to compromise our security or to harm the safety and security of the Taiwanese people.'