Taiwan to tighten tech safeguards against China this year – Nikkei Asia Feedzy

 

Wellington Koo, secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council, told Nikkei Asia that Taiwan will announce this year what are considered core technologies that need to be protected. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by TSMC/AFP/Jiji and Cheng Ting-fang)

THOMPSON CHAU, Contributing writer, and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writer

TAIPEI — Taiwan is set to announce this year a list of critical technologies it wants to protect from the reach of China, a top Taiwanese official told Nikkei Asia.

“Before the end of the year, the National Science and Technology Council will announce what are considered core technologies that need to be protected,” Wellington Koo, secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council, told Nikkei Asia.