TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan only expects a small impact from any tariffs imposed by the incoming government of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on semiconductor exports given their technological superiority, Economy Minister Kuo Jyh-huei said on Friday.
A former senior aide to Donald Trump claimed China had tapped the president-elect’s phone, stolen “extraordinary” amounts of data and is preparing for a first-strike nuclear capability against the United States.
First-strike capability refers to the ability to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack in the hope of damaging or destroying an enemy’s nuclear arsenal to limit its ability to retaliate. China dismissed the most recent allegations as “malicious speculation”, saying the US has “spread all kinds of disinformation about the so-called Chinese hacking threats”.
China’s foreign ministry has yet to respond to a request for comment. The country has a no-first use policy for nuclear weapons. “If gonna play this game, we ought to impose very significant costs and maybe exacerbate some of the very significant difficulties they have associated with their economic growth ... the massive youth unemployment that they have, the housing crisis, the debt crisis and so forth,” he said.
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