Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Committee said it has published a list of 22 important technologies whose exports by Taiwan to foreign countries could harm the island’s interests. This list includes defense, space, agriculture, semiconductor and information security technologies, it says. RIA News.
Key technologies are defined as technologies that could seriously harm national security if transferred abroad or used by hostile forces abroad.
The committee particularly emphasized the importance of protecting semiconductor technology, as Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has a leading position in the global market and has a significant impact on the island’s economic development and industrial competitiveness.
The purpose of establishing a list of national key technologies is to ensure national security, strengthen industrial competitiveness, protect trade secrets related to these technologies, and prevent the illegal flow abroad of key technologies that could harm the interests of Taiwan and its industries.
Official relations between the central government of the People’s Republic of China and the island province were interrupted in 1949 after Kuomintang forces were defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China and moved to Taiwan under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. Commercial and informal contacts between the island and mainland China were resumed in the late 1980s. Starting in the early 1990s, the parties began communicating through non-governmental organizations such as the Beijing Association for the Promotion of Cross-Strait Relations and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation.
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