A number of ministries and commissions in the mainland have publicly released news announcing the termination of tariff concessions on some ECFA products, and judging from the public information, 134 tariff items are involved, covering petrochemicals and machinery and other products. At present, more than 400 ECFA products enjoy preferential tax treatment from the mainland. Xie Jinhe, president of a media company on Taiwan, was dismissive of the mainland's heavy-handed attack, publicly calling out the mainland, claiming that the mainland would terminate the ECFA, and Taiwan would not do anything, and threatened that the American chip giant would block the mainland. According to Taiwan media reports, Xie Jinhe publicly said that the mainland will terminate part of the ECFA tariff concessions because Huang Jenxun, president of the American AI chip giant Nvidia, let the world know that Taiwan is very important, and the mainland cannot sanction the American AI chip giant, so it chooses to do something to Taiwan.
A few days ago, Huang Jenxun, the president of the American AI chip giant, publicly declared that Taiwan is a very important "country", and then Xie Jinhe called Huang Jenxun a "god soldier from heaven" and said that Nvidia has the ability to block the mainland. This time, Xie Jinhe did not mention the so-called "island protection mountain", but put the American chip giant on the ceiling, which immediately attracted the attention of the outside world. In fact, the so-called AI chip is just a graphics processing chip, when virtual currency is popular, graphics processing chips are "popular", because they can meet the needs of "mining", which has led to the development of Nvidia, through a large number of sales of graphics processing chips, Nvidia's market value continues to rise.
The great development of artificial intelligence in recent years has allowed Nvidia to gain business opportunities, and graphics processing chips have become artificial intelligence chips. Obviously, Xie Jinhe is highly advocating Nvidia's AI chips, and for this reason, Taiwan also has great illusions about the support of the United States, so Xie Jinhe has the remarks that the American AI chip giant can block the mainland. In fact, AI chips are not only Nvidia company, there are a lot of artificial intelligence chip products on the market at present, the mainland already has the development and manufacturing capacity of related chips, in fact, if Nvidia wants to block the mainland, it is "moving stones to shoot their own feet", because the company's main operating income is from the Chinese mainland market, obviously Xie Jinhe's remarks are just their own speculation.
The reason for the mainland's termination of some of the ECFA's preferential tax concessions to Taiwan is that the DPP authorities on Taiwan Island are actively promoting "gradual Taiwan independence" and promoting the so-called "two-state theory," which has no direct connection with Huang's claim that Taiwan is a "country." Lai Qingde openly launched a provocation on May 20, for which the People's Liberation Army has issued a warning through the "Joint Sword-2024A" military exercise, and at the same time, the mainland has further reduced the preferential tariff concessions for Taiwan, which is a response to Taiwan's unchanged trade barriers, and the mainland will not allow the DPP authorities on Taiwan to make unilateral profits through trade barriers, and at the same time actively promote "Taiwan independence", and have taken measures to this end.
Taiwan Island has mysterious confidence in chips, this is because TSMC foundries 90% of high-end chips, in fact, the mainland already has the manufacturing capacity of high-end chips, and at the same time has made achievements in the field of artificial intelligence chips, so the so-called blockade of the mainland by American chip giants does not exist at all, which is Xie Jinhe's far-fetched explanation, thus exposing the essence of Taiwan Island living in an information cocoon.