The Thriller
Well-Known Member
I think it has more to do with maintaining the post WWII order where invasion and conquest by major powers has been vanquished than protecting access to semiconductors or enriching defense contractors. If Russia and China can invade neighbors at will, it sends the world back to the pre-WWII era, which is extremely dangerous.Taiwan's position as an assured American protectorate has everything to do with the importance or more importantly declining importance of the Taiwanese economy to the west. Taiwan's dominance (near monopoly) of semiconductor manufacturing is declining with this Taiwan is less important to the west. Taiwan's security position will be more linked to that than anything else.
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