Taiwan is pitching itself to Berlin as the safer alternative to China for chips and advanced tech, a push that is good for European supply-chain security and bad for China's leverage over Europe.

• Taiwan's representative in Germany, Ku Jui-sheng, argued in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung that Europe must stop depending on China for critical technology.
• Taiwan makes most of the world's chips and the vast majority of advanced chips and AI servers, giving Europe an obvious partner for "de-risking."
• A war over Taiwan could cost the world economy around $10 trillion, roughly a tenth of global output, which makes peace in the Taiwan Strait a German and EU economic issue.
• TSMC's new plant in Dresden, a €10 billion-plus project expected to create 2,000 skilled jobs, is the showcase for the partnership.
• Taiwan wants to be treated as a full industrial partner — pairing its hardware with German machinery and software in robotics, self-driving, power electronics and cybersecurity — not just a chip supplier.

Outlook: Expect Taiwan to keep courting Germany on tech and industrial tie-ups as the EU chases its 2030 goal of a fifth of global chip production.