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I think it actually increases assimilation with the US instead. One of the things that improved US relations with Japan when there was fear that they would take
by mlindner 4y ago
I think it actually increases assimilation with the US instead. One of the things that improved US relations with Japan when there was fear that they would take over the US was when they started building a bunch of US-based manufacturing.
- kibwen 4y agoThat's describing something different. In the 80s the US was worried that Japan would dominate the US economically. The dynamic here is that Taiwan is worried that China will dominate Taiwan militarily. The assimilation being referenced above is not between the US and Taiwan, but between the Taiwan and China.
- kube-system 4y agoThe US has no such fear about Taiwan. Taiwan has a fear that they will be invaded by China if they do not have industry that is too important to China to be interrupted by war.
- brookst 4y agoAre you saying China is more likely to invade Taiwan if the destruction of TSMC’s Taiwanese fabs could be mitigated by buying the same products from TSMC’s US-based fabs?
- ido 4y agoI believe what they are saying that the US is less likely to risk war with China to protect Taiwan if they can get chips sources domestically.
- kube-system 4y agoI phrased that wrong. I meant that they want to be important to the world in general (and the US), not specifically China.