China tweets satellite photos of Taiwan’s critical Hsinchu chip hub in pressure-ratcheting political stunt — ‘where all the world’s advanced foundry IP is created,’ highest concentration of chipmaking facilities in the world

On Friday night, China’s embassy in Washington posted a familiar message to X: “There is but one China in the world.” But this time, the predictable rhetoric from China came with a glossy photo carousel that included a sweeping aerial shot of Hsinchu Science Park, the epicenter of the world’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

As analyst Patrick Moorhead highlighted in a response to the embassy’s post, Hsinchu includes TSMC’s Fabs 12A, 12B, 20, 3, 5, 8, 2 and the Advanced Backend Fab…