The United States has announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, in what is the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles to help Taiwan counter China.
The United States has announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, in what is the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles to help Taiwan counter China.
This is a good thing. We CANNOT let China take Taiwan. They provide a huge majority of our semiconductors and computer chips. If that were to go down, we’d be absolutely in a bad place. The world would be in a bad place.
The US won’t, not until it has enough domestic chip production capacity. It would be an outright war, there would be troops sent, there would not be this game of military aid.
Ukraine is not critical to the US interest, it’s important but not critical, Taiwan at the current time would cross a line.
The day either China or the US gets enough chip manufacturing capacity to cover its own national security needs, it’ll be in their best interest to start a war that destroys Taiwan. They’re on borrowed time.
On the plus side, no more fucking infotainment bullshit in our cars. Might be worth it.