What is going to happen to the trade relation between Taiwan and the US, if semiconductor development picks up the speed in China? Based on the latest report, Chinese government gives financial incentives to local businesses within the field of semiconductor field. China's economic slowness might be one advantage for enhancing the trade relation between the US and the Taiwan. Is that so? Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. New Bloom is an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific, founded in Taiwan in 2014 in the wake of the Sunflower Movement.