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Everything.
You should educate yourself on how important microchips are to your everyday life and the economy. Not to speak of the specialized and advanced chips that China requires for their military.
Again, it has everything to do with the U.S.A.I know how important microchips are.
That still doesn't have anything to do with the fact that China wants to invade Taiwan, and China is getting richer and pumping lots of money into its military, and this has nothing to do with the USA.
Again, it has everything to do with the U.S.A.
Is your military important to you? If it is, you better have access to advanced microchips. They cannot be made elsewhere even as TMSC expands outside of Taiwan they cannot match the same production. This is extremely specialized which requires some resources from the Netherlands and I believe Japan. The manner of how fine these chips are is extraordinary.
China knows why they really want Taiwan. I suspect that American leaders know too.
Yes you can, you have to decouple. The E.U is slowly learning this and America better as well. The West has sold itself down the river even as it publicly curses authoritarian regimes. China needs to play by world rules not the other way around.Again, you're mixing up two issues thinking they're the same thing.
The US can't defend Taiwan from China if China really chooses to invade Taiwan. China has a population 4 times that of the US. Yes, it has a GDP that is a lot smaller per capita.
But really in terms of military spending, China is pumping loads of money into specialized equipment for attacking Taiwan. The US can't base itself anywhere close to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are the closest places with US military bases. China has been working on defending its localized maritime area from foreign forces.
For the US to actively defend Taiwan, it's going to have to spend way more than it would ever bother spending on the military and even then China would probably still win.
The reality is all the US will do is provide funding and equipment, like it's done in the Ukraine. There they were dealing with a country 4 times larger than the Ukraine invading. China is 60 times larger.
If chips are important to the US, then the US needs to make chips for the US, rather than relying on Taiwan.
But again, the issue of how important Taiwan is to microchips and the US economy is totally different to the issue of China arming itself. The US can't stop China arming itself and building up a huge military.
Yes you can, you have to decouple. The E.U is slowly learning this and America better as well. The West has sold itself down the river even as it publicly curses authoritarian regimes. China needs to play by world rules not the other way around.
A majority of Taiwanese no longer consider themselves part of chinaThey're not my adversary.
Taiwan is part of China.
Taiwan speaks Mandarin, their people are Han Chinese, and they call themselves the Republic of China.
This is an argument between Chinese people, it's really none of our business.
This is a major reason why the West is losing it's influence and domestic misery expands in many of oir nations. When Canadians rights are abused you say "hey not our problem". Ditto if it happened in Ukraine or even China. The moral high ground is then lost and Americas enemies say "look what you (or an ally) did, dont lecture us". Human rights must mean something. The world cannot just be transactional. It is this support for civil liberties which made America the light on the hill and helped your standard of living and quality of life improve.and all of us benefitted (in theory, though Canada and to a.lesser extent the U.K didnt evolve as.well). Taiwan is a free, capitalist and democratic nation. They are worth supporting. We need the America of old who called out these nations. We need our modern day Reagan.Why does China need to play by "world rules"? There aren't any "world rules". The US never played by them.
China does not want to invade TaiwanI know how important microchips are.
That still doesn't have anything to do with the fact that China wants to invade Taiwan, and China is getting richer and pumping lots of money into its military, and this has nothing to do with the USA.
A majority of Taiwanese no longer consider themselves part of china
The threat of invasion is the only thing preventing Taiwan from declaring independance
They will hold all the cards if they control Taiwan, it's that simple.China does not want to invade Taiwan
1. They would lose
2. China relies on the Western economies for their economic well being.
They will hold all the cards if they control Taiwan, it's that simple.
They won't damage such facilities that's for sure.Can they take Taiwan without destroying the semiconductor facilities?
The key to the industry is the people who build them
They won't damage such facilities that's for sure.
As for the personnel, it's amazing how obedient people become when they have a gun pointed at them.
This is a major reason why the West is losing it's influence and domestic misery expands in many of oir nations. When Canadians rights are abused you say "hey not our problem". Ditto if it happened in Ukraine or even China. The moral high ground is then lost and Americas enemies say "look what you (or an ally) did, dont lecture us". Human rights must mean something. The world cannot just be transactional. It is this support for civil liberties which made America the light on the hill and helped your standard of living and quality of life improve.and all of us benefitted (in theory, though Canada and to a.lesser extent the U.K didnt evolve as.well). Taiwan is a free, capitalist and democratic nation. They are worth supporting. We need the America of old who called out these nations. We need our modern day Reagan.
History says otherwise.I heard an analogy that making semiconductors is like being a master chef
You can capture the kitchen but you need the chef to create gourmet meals
I don’t see how successful they would be at gunpoint
China does not want to invade Taiwan
1. They would lose
2. China relies on the Western economies for their economic well being.
Chins doesn’t have the navy to invade Taiwan. You’ve been taken in by empty bluster on Xi’s part and shameless echoes by MAGA fellow travelers.
#CCP=FASCISM=MAGA
A majority of Taiwanese no longer consider themselves part of china
The threat of invasion is the only thing preventing Taiwan from declaring independance
It is our problem because china wants to control all of Asia starting with the South China Sea and then expanding to all of Asia from the Indian Ocean to JapanAgain, why is this worth World War III.
I hate to say it, but if China wants Taiwan back that bad, IT'S REALLY NOT MY PROBLEM!!!
They don’t have landing craft to launch an invasionActually, they have a Navy of over 600 ships, and can quickly conscript civilian vessels for an invasion, if needed.
I don't think they will because the economic costs would be too high... but with both parties demonizing them and trying to screw with their economies, that calculus might change.
My wife showed me a video the other day where Americans were visiting China and talking about how nice it was and how everyone was so kind to them when they were over there, and then contrasted it with the shit that spews out of Faux News every day.
