American investments in Taiwan’s infrastructure: boosting energy resilience and developing Asian AI ecosystem amid threats of Chinese invasion

On July 1, Google announced a partnership with the US investment fund BlackRock to invest in a project by Taiwanese solar energy developer New Green to build a power grid. Although the amount of the deal was not disclosed, the 1 gigawatt project to be implemented in Taiwan is expected to cost at least $1 billion.

The investments of American companies signal the preparations of the United States and its allies for a potential global clash with China, of which the conflict in Taiwan will be a part.

As part of this preparation, the democratic bloc is actively studying Ukraine’s experience, which has demonstrated that energy, telecommunications, and logistics infrastructure is a point of vulnerability in defense against the countries of the autocratic axis, as it is regularly targeted by missile and cyber attacks from the Russian Federation.