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The accompanying text is “Due to the ambitious chip manufacturing incentives offered by other countries’ governments and ongoing consolidation in the industry, the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S. fell by more than 10 percent over the past 8 years.”

This leads me to think that these figures represent "the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity broken down by region" ??? (In this context the Taiwanese 0.00% fig. is correct.)

My bad. :( Somebody should inform Statista!

The actual figures are:

   U.S.   Japan  E.U.   Korea  Taiwan  China
   46%    9%     9%     21%    8%      7%

Wow, China's such a threat, no wonder the U.S. has to sanction them up the wazoo. Interestingly the U.S. has troops stationed in Korea, Japan, the E.U., and a small presence in Taiwan (but sells them a boatload of arms.) So the U.S. controls or has troops in countries which control 93% of the global market share of semiconductors – and yet despite this dominance sees China as such a threat that it is trying to strangle its semiconductor industry in the cot.