The chip industry emerged out of the Cold War military industrial complex and has been shaped by political choices in the US and other countries, with the industry internationalizing across countries that are close US allies or partners, as a deliberate Cold War construction combining policies by elites in East Asia and the US government.
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Chris MillerEvidence Quote
“since the middle of the Cold War, the US government has been very deliberate in trying to bind other countries to it by bringing them into electronics and semiconductor supply chains... the internationalization of the chip and a supply chain that stretches from the US to Japan to Korea to Taiwan was a deliberate construction in the Cold War”
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Professor Chris Miller - “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology”— MIT Security Studies ProgramCreated: 8/11/2026, 1:42:53 AM
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