Last November, Germany think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) released a policy brief discussing the reasons behind current global shortage, as well as possible solutions. As an international value chain, semiconductor industry needs a stable geopolitics environment more than many industries do. In this episode of ijiwei Talk, we invited Julia Hess, project manager of Technology and Geopolitics at SNV to explain how the uncertain geopolitics has elongated chip shortage.