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Silicon shield 2025 / producer, Craig Addison ; writer/directors, Drew Wilson, Craig Addison.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer industry--Political aspects--Taiwan.
- Computer industry.
- Chinese reunification question, 1949-.
- Technology and international relations.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Ashgrove, Queensland : Galloping Entertainment, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- This is the story of how Taiwan built a "silicon shield" to protect itself from Mainland Chinese attack by ensuring it became indispensable to the world as a key supplier of advanced microchips. The documentary illustrates how semiconductor technology was used as a national defense strategy by Taiwan, and how the development of the hi-tech industries in China and Taiwan reduced until now the threat of military conflict in the volatile Taiwan Strait.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Brian Butler.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed December 12, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1465053707
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