> The US protected Taiwanese sovereignty for decades before they even had a single semiconductor fab. That was before the current administration wiped out the

> The US protected Taiwanese sovereignty for decades before they even had a single semiconductor fab. That was before the current administration wiped out the very idea of "soft power" and put everything including NATO up for disposal. There is, frankly, no way for anyone to trust the US again until the US undergoes steps similar to post-1945 Germany.