The chair of the world’s second-largest microchip maker announced a $100 million donation to the Taiwan government for defense against China on Aug. 5, after Beijing initiated massive military drills around the island.
“$100 million is not much money to buy weapons,” Robert Tsao, founder of chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) who now lives in Singapore, said at a press conference in Taipei. “I hope it can awaken Taiwanese people from being greedy for money and fearful of death, and can fight to defend freedom, democracy, and human rights.”
Tsao said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) worships “totalitarianism, deceit, hatred, and violence,” its members are “hooligans and rogues,” and the regime is “an underworld.”…