Taiwan’s electronic companies such as Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron used to produce more than 90% of the laptops in China. Many scholars say the outbreaks of trade war and pandemic have sparked the tech decoupling. Yet, recently released data on Taiwan’s computer exports show that the US had already started to become a stronger magnet for tech products, driving the supply chain out of China years before the pandemic and trade war outbreaks.