Signal Semiconductors, biotech, clean energy and pharmaceuticals are named as strategic manufacturing

Summary

This signal concerns manufacturing capability as a strategic resource. The report says capacity in technologies now treated as strategic, including semiconductors, biotechnology, clean energy and pharmaceuticals, is a growing source of power. Beyond the US and China, it lists Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, the Netherlands and India as places with such influence. This shows that manufacturing strength can give smaller and middle powers leverage in the international system. It is the second of the resource categories, alongside minerals, capital and talent, that the report links to outsized influence. The signal supports the story that access to strategic resources is reshaping who holds power.