Taiwan fears high-tech semiconductor industry under threat by spies

Known and renowned for its technological advancement, Taiwan is faced with an espionage war against its high-tech and prized industry of semiconductors, as the country is mostly suffering “hybrid warfare.”

Professor Kuo Yujen, who is a researcher at the Institute for National Policy Research (INPR) said that China has ruled out the thought of annexing Taiwan with military force, instead, he explained Beijing would resort to the multipronged hybrid warfare that comprises psychological, information and cognitive warfare.

Yujen said that experts in high-tech technology would enter Taiwan as tourists and recruit Taiwanese directors at high-tech technology companies to work for them, drawing a bleak image of how this war is waged.