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Taiwan, U.S. are semiconductor partners, not rivals: U.S. scholar
Washington, July 11 (CNA) An American scholar has rejected President Donald Trump's claim that Taiwan took America's chip industry, saying the United States and Taiwan are strategic partners rather than competitors in semiconductors.
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