jason Hsu @augama
Senior Fellow Hudson Institute | Former Legislator Taiwan | https://t.co/xyPMZyEuSZ Taipei, Taiwan Joined January 2008-
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Taiwan's economic ties with the US have never been stronger, and Taipei has built strong diplomatic ties across every Western capital. But Taiwan still lacks a powerful business voice in Washington and faces a false narrative that Taipei "stole" America's semiconductor industry. To correct this narrative, Taiwan's companies should treat Washington as a market that demands the same sustained investment, local presence, and strategic patience as any other major market. That means four concrete steps: 1. Build real teams. Washington outposts staffed by junior representatives cannot substitute for senior leadership with decision-making authority and long-term mandates. 2. Invest in relationships before crises arise. Engaging think tanks, trade associations, and members of Congress only during emergencies forfeits the credibility that comes from showing up consistently during the quiet stretches when trust is built. 3. Coordinate across firms. Taiwan's collective story is far more compelling than any single company's. Taiwanese firms should align their advocacy so their voices reinforce rather than fragment each other's messages. 4. Invest in ideas. Research, public commentary, and advisory relationships allow American policymakers to understand what Taiwanese firms actually do, why they matter to American competitiveness and what the consequences of getting policy wrong would be. @augama and Patrick Wilson in @NikkeiAsia: asia.nikkei.com/opinion/taiwan…
Last month at @CSIS, we hosted a conference reassessing China's strategic value to South Korea. ICYMI, rewatch it here ⬇️ Panel 1️⃣: buff.ly/o6ip94s (ROK) Panel 2️⃣: buff.ly/IwwZVDu (Taiwan) Panel 3️⃣: buff.ly/94Jjf6N (DPRK) ▶️ Full event: buff.ly/TuxxyAr Or, read @VictorDCha and @yesun_k's recent analysis here: buff.ly/ohpoW01 🎙️ Featured speakers: @VictorDCha · @sydseiler · @RushDoshi · @MarkCancian · @AndrewIYeo · @patricia_m_kim · @snydersas · @junghpak1 · @augama · @bostonsunny · @sungminchohi · @Henrietta_Ivy · Joseph Yun · Mark Lambert · Nicholas Szechenyi @JapanChair
The path forward requires four things: real Washington teams with decision-making authority, relationships built before crises hit, coordinated advocacy across firms, and sustained investment in ideas. Taiwan has earned a seat at the table. It’s time to take it.
Thrilled to share my latest piece where @DUhockeyFan and I argue that Taiwan’s tech companies must find their voices in Washington DC
OPINION: Taiwan's tech companies must find their voice in Washington False narrative of 'stealing' America's chip industry goes largely unchallenged without strong lobbying s.nikkei.com/4giZJpA
The good news: TSMC has shown that engagement works. When Taiwan’s companies show up, invest in relationships, and make their case with confidence, they are treated as the strategic partners they already are.
The cost of that absence is no longer theoretical. Taiwan’s story is being told by others, and not always accurately. Taiwan’s culture of corporate discretion — built over decades of world-class manufacturing — has become a strategic liability at precisely the wrong moment.
And yet Taiwan’s companies remain largely absent from Washington’s policy debates — while Japan, South Korea, and Germany all field powerful corporate voices in the U.S. capital.
Check out this essay in @NikkeiAsia with @HudsonInstitute's @augama and ME! - By not being at the table consistently, #Taiwan finds itself often on the menu. It is past time for Taiwan's companies to step forward and claim the seat at the table they have already earned. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/taiwan…
The question isn’t whether Huawei can build capable hardware. It’s whether U.S. policy is inadvertently accelerating the growth of a rival AI ecosystem at scale. Let’s focus on enabling the American AI stack.
Most of the Senate Banking Committee hearing today missed the central issue in technology competition: adoption matters more than specs.
At the same time, its new Ascend 950 reportedly matches NVIDIA’s H200 on FP4 performance, one of the most relevant metrics for inference workloads.
Competitive advantage comes from ecosystems, developers, and real-world usage—not benchmark comparisons. Huawei has effectively been handed access to the world’s second-largest and most dynamic AI developer market.
@USCC_GOV @HudsonInstitute Thanks @USCC_GOV for inviting me to testify and raising the awareness of such pressing issue. Taiwan’s security is interlinked with world’s stability.
"Subsea cable security is not a future risk. It is a present and accelerating danger. Subsea fiberoptic cable carries roughly 97 percent of global intercontinental data traffic." - Jason Hsu, Senior Fellow, @HudsonInstitute 📺Hearing on U.S.-China Competition Under the Sea
Cheng Li-wun, Taiwan's opposition party leader, is visiting the US this week. Her message for America is that Taiwan operates under a constitution that supports the principle that the island and the mainland are part of a single China. Jason Hsu's comments on her trip ⬇️
Read more from @augama of @HudsonInstitute about why Taiwan shouldn't be a bargaining chip in US discussions with China: nationalinterest.org/feature/why-ta…
My latest piece in The National Interest: nationalinterest.org/feature/why-ta… As Washington and Beijing seek to stabilize relations, there is growing temptation to view Taiwan as an issue to be managed rather than a strategic asset to be strengthened. That would be a mistake.
In Beijing, Xi offered Trump a stabler US–China relationship if Washington reduced its support for Taiwan. But Taiwan is central to the global economy and to America's technological future. Taiwan cannot be treated like a bargaining chip. Jason Hsu's latest in @TheNatlInterest
5. We have to see if Trump will announce delay of the arms sales to Taiwan after the Sunmit. If he did, that’s a win for Xi.
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