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by chvid 2528 days ago
I can see you have got answers pointing in two completely different directions.

I was stuck by this statistical from a recent article in SCMP:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3016657/he...

To help narrow its chip gap, Beijing looks east to Taiwan

"There are no official numbers about how many Taiwanese are working at tech companies on the mainland, but a widely cited statistic suggests that about 9 per cent of the island’s population, or 2 million people – including businessmen, managers, students and their families – are living on the mainland."