{"id":6081,"date":"2026-01-13T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:01:30","slug":"taiwan-crisis-chinese-dominance-eu-dependency-interview-with-alessa-hool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2026\/01\/13\/taiwan-crisis-chinese-dominance-eu-dependency-interview-with-alessa-hool\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Crisis, Chinese Dominance, EU Dependency: Interview with Alessa Hool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With China controlling key raw materials and Taiwan dominating chip manufacturing, the question arises: what consequences would an escalation between Taiwan and China have for Switzerland? In the second part of a series of interviews conducted by the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Alessa Hool, Managing Director of the ESM Foundation, analyzes how well Switzerland would be prepared for a geopolitical shock and why free trade agreements alone are no longer sufficient. She highlights the limitations of Swiss trade policy and which diversification approaches actually work. <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.satw.ch\/en\/news\/taiwan-crisis-china-dominance-eu-dependency-what-a-geopolitical-shock-would-mean-for-switzerland?setLang=1\">Read the interview<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is part of a series of interviews with Alessa Hool, Managing Director of the ESM Foundation and expert at the SATW Sustainable Circular Economy Platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With China controlling key raw materials and Taiwan dominating chip manufacturing, the question arises: what consequences would an escalation between Taiwan and China have for Switzerland? In the second part of a series of interviews conducted by the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Alessa Hool, Managing Director of the ESM Foundation, analyzes how well&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2026\/01\/13\/taiwan-crisis-chinese-dominance-eu-dependency-interview-with-alessa-hool\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}