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Call me cynical, but I think our interests in Taiwan have more to do with our dependence upon their semiconductor industry, much like our interests in the Middl
by lockhouse 4y ago
Call me cynical, but I think our interests in Taiwan have more to do with our dependence upon their semiconductor industry, much like our interests in the Middle East are driven by their oil.
- rektide 4y agoThe US never capitalized super heavily on Iraqi nor Afgahni oil. I too definitely do think that "What Barry Says" view is ultra real, a real concern, but also, it seems like there were just general neoconservative interests in being interventionalist, in using might to change not great situations. There's definitely a rival power situation here well beyond just semiconductor interests. Making it not easy for China to be ever expansionist, making it harder for a scary authoritarian power to subvert, manipulate, & control a reasonably self running republic is good cause too, if again not entirely altruistic.