I guess you got downvoted because the connection is not obvious. The relevant paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Implications_... is

> [...] A materials scientist working for Rubycon in Japan left the company, taking the secret water-based electrolyte formula for Rubycon's ZA and ZL series capacitors, and began working for a Chinese company. The scientist then developed a copy of this electrolyte. Then, some staff members who defected from the Chinese company copied an incomplete version of the formula and began to market it to many of the aluminium electrolytic manufacturers in Taiwan [...]

Asianometry has an interesting video on the topic titled What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/rSpzAVpnXo4

TIL! The only time (knock on wood) I ever had a motherboard go bad was an MSI from around 2002, due to a blown capacitor. To their credit, MSI had great support at the time, and sent me a new one after I sent a photo of the blown capacitor.