The Taiwanese chip giant TSMC’s plan to invest $100 billion in the United States has been met with anxiety and criticism in its home country.

The United States cannot abandon the Indo-Pacific because the region is part of its "core national interests", Taiwan's Defence Minister Wellington Koo said amid concerns about U.S. security commitments to Taiwan.

A longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan has—under Trump—begun to breed anxious uncertainty.

TSMC is on a slippery slope. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , the world's largest chipmaker, on Monday pledged $100 billion in fresh funds to build factories in the United States. It also committed to set up a major research and development centre stateside,

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and the CEO of Taiwan's largest chipmaker on Thursday held a joint news conference defending TSMC's decision to invest $100 billion in the U.S., saying that it stemmed from customer demand and not out of pressure from the Trump administration.

a Taiwan chipmaker, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Trump will announce the investment, which will occur over the next four years, in the Roosevelt Room on Monday ...

Trump said TSMC’s plans would create “many thousands” of high-paying jobs and described the production of AI chips within the US as a “matter of economic security” for the country.

Following C. C. Wei, the chairman and CEO of TSMC, being invited to the White House to announce substantial investments in the US, questions have emerged regarding whether TSMC had previously received verbal approval from Taiwan's high-level government officials for this overseas expansion.

President Trump and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing announced a $100 billion company investment in Phoenix. The deal could have broad significance.