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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (31489)	7/21/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

China's attempts to grow an internal semiconductor industry (via joint ventures in particular) have already been hampered by export restrictions. Reincorporating Taiwan by force would certainly not ease these restrictions. You might even see both US and Japanese chipmakers lobbying very hard for equipment export restrictions as a way to stifle a threatening competitor. In Tibet, etc., China has a long history of acting in its own self-interest (as it sees it), without paying much attention to what the outside world thinks. Developing a semiconductor industry is a very high priority for the mainland, and "acquiring" one via Taiwan would certainly not distress mainland policymakers. But I'm not enough of a geopolitics expert to say whether the wish to preserve Taiwan's chip industry would affect China's broad Taiwan policy at all. Katherine