TSMC’s earthquake experiences demonstrate that real resilience requires more than rapid recovery. Governance, engineering safeguards, disciplined BCM, and adaptive insurance all matter—when balanced with employee safety and long-term operational stability.

Even as TSMC’s international footprint reaches unprecedented scale, the center of gravity of global chip manufacturing remains—and for the foreseeable future will continue to remain—firmly anchored in Taiwan.

In the third quarter of 2025, TSMC reported quarterly revenue of US$33.06 billion, up 9.3% quarter-on-quarter, outperforming the industry average. Its global market share rose to 71.0%, surpassing the 70% threshold for the first time and setting a new historical high.

Cho’s decision represents the first known case involving refusal to countersign a law related to fiscal legislation or budgetary governance.

While TSMC is preparing to mass-produce 2 nm chips for customers such as Apple and Nvidia—pushing the technology frontier forward by roughly three additional nodes—China is still grappling with the economic viability and stability of 7 nm production.

Concerns mount that some users may not be able to distinguish between neutral information and messaging aligned with Chinese state narratives.

After a 13-day fire at Tainan’s Wushulin waste site (烏樹林暫置場), officials apologized and acknowledged systemic failures in debris sorting and long-term storage, promising accelerated cleanup, full environmental monitoring, and new management rules.

Every large community should maintain its own risk map, updated annually, identifying: construction hotspots, zones with heavy electrical load, storage or use of flammable materials, floors with significant elderly populations, weak night-shift oversight.

The gap between leading enterprises is actually widening, making Taiwan’s strategic position in the global supply chain even more prominent.

City diplomacy offers Taiwan a strategic solution to stay in the game, by creating a subnational platform that allows foreign countries to circumvent the concerns of formally recognizing Taiwan’s statehood. Such efforts by the city of Kaohsiung provide a great example as to why Taiwan should leverage city diplomacy to advance its foreign policy goals.