Kauppapolitiikka: A world built on microchips
Our digital world will become paralysed if access to semiconductors becomes more difficult. The theme of the June issue is semiconductors and geopolitics.
While oil can be used as a pawn in the game of geopolitical power politics, it is more difficult to gamble with microchips and other critical components and complex production chains. In the latest issue of the Kauppapolitiikka magazine, we ask why we now find ourselves in a situation where Taiwan produces 90 per cent of the most advanced semiconductors.
The EU, too, has been slow to wake up to its semiconductor dependence on Asia, and Europe is bringing up the rear in the race on technology. Or have we already lost? The latest issue gives a comprehensive overview of semiconductor production and geopolitics.
The June issue discusses how we need a varied toolbox to fix the current and future skills shortages. We will describe what kinds of trade barriers Finnish companies have encountered recently and how greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacture of products imported into Finland increase our impact on climate.
The interview section features a local cosmopolitan Juha Vartiainen, the Mayor of the City of Helsinki, who talks about how Helsinki is growing and becoming more international.
Our columnist Trade Shark strikes again in the June issue!
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You can read these and other stories already at the Kauppapolitiikka website. Subscribers will get the printed magazine on 8 June 2023 at the earliest. You can subscribe to the printed magazine for free.
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Kauppapolitiikka is a quarterly international trade magazine, published in Finnish by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.