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There is no US Air Force base in Taiwan. There are 3 in South Korea (Kunsan, Osan, Sasebo) and 3 in Japan (Kadena, Yokota, Misawa). That’s it. No country would
by nindalf 5y ago
There is no US Air Force base in Taiwan. There are 3 in South Korea (Kunsan, Osan, Sasebo) and 3 in Japan (Kadena, Yokota, Misawa). That’s it.
No country would lock China out of their economies. It would be the most painful suicide imaginable. China is already the source of most components in most industries. A China that annexed Taiwan would also be the main source of the world’s semiconductors.
And that’s even before getting into how companies cut off from the second largest market in the world would struggle to survive against competitors that weren’t.
- mcguire 5y agoYou've read Norman Angell's The Great Illusion?
- LatteLazy 5y ago13 percent of US trade is with china. 20 percent of EU trade. And that's trade, not percent of economy. I think you might be over estimating how indispensable they are. This is one of (not the only reason) China is so hungry to move into harder to replace industries (cutting edge chip manufacturing for instance, infrastructure like 5G). And of course Chinese markets are mostly closed to Western goods and services already...