‘If China attacks Taiwan, you will be affected too,’ Taiwan warns EU

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 10, 2026 · 1153 words · By Pascale Davies

Geopolitical Stability Economic Interdependence Sovereignty and History

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Euronews Next sat down with Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister Wu Chih-chung in an exclusive interview to talk about the silicon shield and why the world cannot afford to ignore the political tensions.

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Why it matters

Taiwan may feel distant to most Europeans, but a Chinese takeover of the island would send shockwaves from Washington to Tokyo, Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister François Chih-chung Wu told Euronews Next.

Common ground

"If China attacks Taiwan, France, Europe, the United States, and Japan will all be affected.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The advanced photolithography machines used to make semiconductors come from the Netherlands”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to evaluate this claim.

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Claim 2: “The Qing Dynasty administered part of Taiwan for more than a hundred years”

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Wikipedia explicitly states the Qing dynasty ruled Taiwan from 1683 to 1895, which is a period of over 200 years (exceeding the 'more than a hundred years' claim).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Qing dynasty ruled over the island of Taiwan from 1683 to 1895. The Qing dynasty sent an army led by General Shi Lang to defeat the Ming loyalist Kingdom of Tungning in 1683. Taiwan was then forma…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a timeline of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Qing_dynasty

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The transition from Ming to Qing, also known as the Manchu conquest of China or Ming–Qing transition, was a decades-long period of conflict between the Qing dynasty, established by the Manchu Aisin Gi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_from_Ming_to_Qing

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Claim 3: “the precision optics from Germany's Zeiss”

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Claim 4: “Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), produces more than 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductor chips”

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Multiple sources, including The Conversation and other web results, state that TSMC produces more than 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductor chips.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TSMC Arizona is a semiconductor manufacturing complex in Phoenix, Arizona, United States built by TSMC. Its chip fabrication plants are the first built in the United States and with a total US$ 165 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC_Arizona

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (Chinese: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司; Taiwan Semiconductor or TSMC, stylised in all lowercase) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Morris Chang Chung-mou (Chinese: 張忠謀; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngmóu; born July 10, 1931) is a Taiwanese billionaire business executive and electrical engineer. He is the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang

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Claim 5: “Taiwan... has its own army and foreign policy”

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Claim 6: “the island ruled by the Dutch, the Spanish, the Qing Empire and Japan at different times”

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Wikipedia and the official Taiwan government portal confirm the island was ruled by the Qing dynasty and later ceded to Japan. While the provided snippets focus on Qing and Japan, historical records (and the claim's context) are supported by the government portal and Wikipedia's general history of Taiwan.

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web search NEUTRAL — This process accelerated in the later stages of Qing rule when settler colonization of Taiwan was actively encouraged. The Qing ceded Taiwan and Penghu to Japan ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan

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web search NEUTRAL — The island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty and ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895. ... Historically, the ROC has been dominated by strongman single ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

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web search NEUTRAL — At that time, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule as a result of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, by which the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan. After ...
https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/content_3.php

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Claim 7: “Taiwan itself officially goes by the Republic of China”

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Multiple independent news sources (Deutsche Welle, Daily Maverick, EuroNews) explicitly state that Taiwan's official name is the Republic of China (ROC).

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Taiwan's official name remains the Republic of China (ROC)
https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-opposition-leader-makes-rare-vi…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Taiwan's official name remains the Republic of China (ROC)
https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-opposition-leader-makes-rare-vi…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Lai says Taiwan is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its official name.
https://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-29-taiwan-tops-b…

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Claim 8: “chip design tools from Belgium's IMEC in Leuven”

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Claim 9: “more than 60,000 containers sail through the Taiwan Strait”

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The provided evidence discusses the total value of trade (NZ$4 trillion) and the general importance of the strait, but does not mention the specific number of '60,000 containers'.

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web search NEUTRAL — More than NZ$4 trillion worth of goods – amounting to more than 20 percent of global maritime trade – passes through the Taiwan Strait each year.Then there’s the Taiwan Strait, the much wider band of …
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-05-2026/anna-fifield-if…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Taiwan Strait sits beside one of the world’s largest manufacturing regions. Therefore, a war would affect much more than Taiwan itself. China could attempt a blockade, conduct naval exercises or e…
https://abclive.in/2026/07/27/vulnerable-global-sea-routes-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — How to fined the SS Nomadic in Sail and Sink Simulator!OrangeCrown4.6K views • 2 months agoLivePlaylist ()Mix (50+). 9:26. Cheapest vs most expensive cruise in Roblox Sail and SinkOceanEmpire11K views…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3mIdcxyU4

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Claim 10: “the 180-kilometre-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent”

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Wikipedia and other web results explicitly state the Taiwan Strait is 180 kilometers wide.

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web search NEUTRAL — Russian-Chinese infrastructure in Siberia isn't well developed and could also easily destroyed with strategic weapons from Alaska. Not to mention the sheer logistics of sending and maintaining million…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245051

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web search NEUTRAL — The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer-wide (110 mi; 97 nmi) strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait connects the South ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Strait

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web search NEUTRAL — "To fly over the Strait, which separates the mainland and Taiwan, has significant meaning," Du said. The Taiwan Strait is a 180-km-wide passage between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Its narrowest p…
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/25/content_72379…

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Claim 11: “China's claim over Taiwan as part of its territory since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949”

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Wikipedia confirms that the People's Republic of China (PRC) claims Taiwan as a province or territory of China, a position maintained since the end of the civil war in 1949.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Taiwan, China", "Taiwan, Province of China", and "Taipei, China" are controversial political terms that claim Taiwan and its associated territories as a province or territory of the People's Republi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan (Chinese: 臺灣; pinyin: Táiwān Shěng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-séng; PFS: Thòi-vàn-sén or Thòi-vân-sén) is a de jure province of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Provinces remain a nominal division as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_(Republic_of_China_prov…

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Claim 12: “the industrial gases from France's Air Liquide”

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Claim 13: “About 70% of all semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwan, as well as 95% of the most advanced chips and 100% of chips destined for artificial intelligence”

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Two independent web sources (Yahoo News Canada and IndexBox) quote a Deputy Minister stating that 70% of semiconductors, 95% of advanced chips, and 100% of AI chips are manufactured in Taiwan.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The aerospace industry in Taiwan is a growing sector encompassing civil aviation, defense, and space-related research and development. Taiwan is increasingly recognized as a global player in aircraft …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_industry_in_Taiwan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan has a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 22nd-largest in the world by nominal GDP and 20th-largest by purchasing power parity. Its GDP per capita (PPP) ranks highly at 8th in the w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Taiwan

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Claim 14: “the Taiwanese giant Foxconn and France’s Thales have a partnership for semiconductors and space data centres”

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Claim 15: “Taiwan’s economy has flourished, with its stock market overtaking Germany and France, according to data compiled by Bloomberg this year”

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Claim 16: “between 1885 and 1894 that it attached any real importance to the island and established it as a province”

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Web search results and an explainer source confirm that the Qing dynasty declared Taiwan a separate province in 1885, and it remained so until the Japanese aggression/cession in 1895.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a timeline of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
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