Edited video contorts US official’s TSMC comments

DISINFORMATION: The comments in the clipped video were used by some media to suggest that people in the US support the bombing of TSMC, Joseph Wu said

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “selectively clipped” a video in which US Representative Seth Moulton suggested “blow[ing] up” Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC) facilities in Taiwan, he said yesterday.

“The CCP selectively clipped my comments, spread them on social media and attempted to undermine the US-Taiwan partnership,” Moulton said in response to a request for clarification of his remarks.

Moulton was most likely alluding to a video shared on Chinese social media platform Douyin on Saturday last week, in which he says at a think tank event: “… very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we are gonna blow up TSMC.”