Taiwan and Michigan are deepening economic ties, a positive for tech supply chains, chipmakers, and the auto industry on both sides.

• Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung hosted Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's delegation in Taipei, on her third trip to Taiwan.
• The two sides focused on trade, investment, and making high-tech supply chains harder to disrupt.
• Taiwan is building its US economic ties on three pillars: a reciprocal trade deal, an investment memorandum, and an economic prosperity dialogue.
• Michigan and Taiwan already cooperate on semiconductors, electric vehicles, and AI, and that now extends into defense.
• Michigan is pitching itself as a drone hub with a full ecosystem for research, training, and testing.

Outlook: Expect more Taiwanese investment flowing into Michigan and closer US-Taiwan coordination on chips, drones, and AI, framed as a shift from partners to co-owners of shared industrial gains.