Taiwan is against sending 50% of its microchip factories to the United States.

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Taiwan has rejected the Trump administration's proposal to move 50% of chip manufacturing to the United States.

Currently, Taiwan accounts for approximately 90% of the world's advanced chip production.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated yesterday that the current administration's goal is to move at least half of the manufacturing to the United States, allowing Americans to produce chips independently.

Taipei strongly disagrees with this proposal and has already stated that it will not happen.

 

[AsiaCel]

there goes its only bargaining chip

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

How arrogant and ungrateful scum they have to be to go against their provider and protector like this. Let me remind you that the us entered the second world war because they imposed sanctions on japan, which is why the japs attacked pearl harbor. Taiwan could have lost its independence long ago if china and the stalin sssr had organized an amphibious assault with the help of the soviet pacific fleet. The United States has invested billions of dollars in Taiwan (today, this could be considered tens of billions of dollars, if we consider inflation), and in return, we have received such a disgusting display of ingratitude.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

there goes its only bargaining chip

If I were an American politician, I would do everything I could to make Taiwan cease to exist, not because it would be beneficial or make sense, but simply because ingratitude should be punished severely. I would want the Chinese communists Party to take over the island and execute the entire ruling elite for their separatist actions.

 

[Zer0/∞]

How arrogant and ungrateful scum they have to be to go against their provider and protector like this. Let me remind you that the us entered the second world war because they imposed sanctions on japan, which is why the japs attacked pearl harbor. Taiwan could have lost its independence long ago if china and the stalin sssr had organized an amphibious assault with the help of the soviet pacific fleet. The United States has invested billions of dollars in Taiwan (today, this could be considered tens of billions of dollars, if we consider inflation), and in return, we have received such a disgusting display of ingratitude.

Imperialist mindset, trying to force tribute payments from a sovereign state.

 

[Excalibur]

Imperialist mindset, trying to force tribute payments from a sovereign state.

And? That’s how state power in this world works.

Taiwan is vulnerable and America is ready to protect it in exchange for payment. Nothing is free.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Imperialist mindset, trying to force tribute payments from a sovereign state.

When all your successes are truly great. Let me remind you that South Korea and Taiwan became giants in the production of electronics, chips, and so on, only because the United States invested tens of billions of dollars in them (given current trends), which is how they became what they are. If it weren't for the United States, South Korea, or Taiwan, they wouldn't have become more developed than Vietnam or achieved such a high standard of living.

 

[GobidMujahid]

If it weren't for the United States, South Korea, or Taiwan, they wouldn't have become more developed than Vietnam or achieved such a high standard of living.

Vietnam is on the other extreme end because they were devastated by a war with the United States and then sanctioned for decades after.

By the way, East Asians don't consider the Vietnamese as their peers, like how Western Europeans look down on Easterners.

 

[hatepilledandrich]

As they should. They need the leverage otherwise what is the point? This is their only card afterall.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Vietnam is on the other extreme end because they were devastated by a war with the United States and then sanctioned for decades after.

By the way, East Asians don't consider the Vietnamese as their peers, like how Western Europeans look down on Easterners.

Yes, but I was just giving an example of how if it weren't for the U.S. investment, Taiwan and South Korea wouldn't have achieved such a high standard of living and would likely have a similar standard of living to Vietnam. I just wanted to differentiate between countries that have achieved success on their own, such as Japan, which was an industrial power before being occupied by the U.S. and had various manufacturing companies. If Korea and Taiwan hadn't received tens of billions of dollars in U.S. investment, they wouldn't have had the tsmc or samsung companies.

 

[GobidMujahid]

Yes, but I was just giving an example of how if it weren't for the U.S. investment, Taiwan and South Korea wouldn't have achieved such a high standard of living and would likely have a similar standard of living to Vietnam. I just wanted to differentiate between countries that have achieved success on their own, such as Japan, which was an industrial power before being occupied by the U.S. and had various manufacturing companies. If Korea and Taiwan hadn't received tens of billions of dollars in U.S. investment, they wouldn't have had the tsmc or samsung companies.

Trvke.

I hate seeing South Koreans and Taiwanese be smug about themselves when all they did was suck American cock both figuratively and literally.

It fits the crime that they are now the most trooned countries on the Earth, haha.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Trvke.

I hate seeing South Koreans and Taiwanese be smug about themselves when all they did was suck American cock both figuratively and literally.

It fits the crime that they are now the most trooned countries on the Earth, haha.

Yes, but they didn't show any gratitude, considering the number of U.S. soldiers who died during World War II as a result of the sanctions imposed by Roosevelt on Japan for its invasion of the Republic of China (Taiwan today), which resulted in the deaths of approximately 400,000 U.S. soldiers. It seems rather pathetic to give up 50% of your chip factories in exchange for protecting the island in the 1950s and 1970s, when the risk of a Chinese invasion was higher. This is despite the investments made and the benefits of free trade and barriers.

 

[Trident]

I believe they are afraid that once they send their most advanced semiconductor production facilities to the U.S, America might betray them in the event of PRC invasion.