with conservative members. the two of them have faced off tonight in wales. and a hosepipe ban for gardeners in parts of southern england. but how are the farmers coping with the lack of rain? we ll be live in essex to find out. tonight with the context, the former adviser to hillary clinton, amanda renteria, and former senior adviser to george w bush, ron christie. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. she was there less than 2a hours, but the fallout from nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan looks like it might endure for some time. china is about to begin three days of live fire military exercises barely 12 nautical miles off shore, which taiwan says amounts to an air and sea blockade. such was the military response to the speaker s visit yesterday, the flight that transferred her from malaysia to taiwan was forced to take a three hour detour around the phillippines. and it remains tense. at one point today, taiwan scrambled its own fighterjets to ward off those from china tha
advanced semiconductors, there s just one taiwanese company, tsmc, that makes more than 90% of the entire global supply. you might have read that the us has begun trying to solve the problem. joe biden is about to sign into law a bipartisan bill congress passed last week called the chips and science act which will provide tens of billions of dollars to companies developing semi conductors with tax credits for research. emily taylor is the ceo of oxford information labs. she is also the editor of the chatham house journal of cyber policy. she s in oxford. welcome to the programme. talk to me about taiwan s role with semiconductors. if there was to be in embargo, if china was to block the air and in embargo, if china was to block the airand dc, in embargo, if china was to block the air and dc, exported from taiwan, what would that mean for the global economy? it taiwan, what would that mean for the global economy? global economy? it would have a really significant, global economy? i