It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
Poor Taiwan.
I seem to recall a recent president that tried to get companies to return to the US so we would not have these kinds of problems.
IBM
NVIDIA
McKinsey & Company
Microsoft
Boston Consulting Group
Synopsys
HP Inc.
Apple
Uber
Dell
Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Nike
Intel Corporation
Qualcomm
originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM
a reply to: carewemust
Beat me to it, I just heard this on the radio on the way home from work.
Unless Brandon knows something we don’t (I’m not convinced he knows anything my dog doesn’t) why make such a provocative and definitive statement?
While I certainly don’t admire or condone authoritarian China and support the right of Taiwan to be a democratically self-governed sovereign nation - what would there be to gain from this?
Then there’s the logistics as 727Sky has alluded to. With the proximity of Taiwan to the Chinese mainland they have a supreme advantage in terms of supply lines, controlling the air, the sea, land based missile launches and the rest.
When China bloodies Americas nose there they will be further emboldened to ratchet up the pressure on Australia. Oh, and as of recently they have a new extension of the existing arrangement in the Solomon Islands....roughly 2000km’s from our coastline where they promised they absolutely, totally, definitely won’t build any military or naval bases.
originally posted by: TTU77
semi-condoctor chips. All highest US military tech uses Tawaiin chips. There are no alternatives. If China gains control of Tawainn, they win the 21st century.
President Joe Biden said the United States would intervene militarily if China were to invade the island nation. A White House official said Biden’s comments did not reflect a decades-old policy shift.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
Poor Taiwan.
I seem to recall a recent president that tried to get companies to return to the US so we would not have these kinds of problems.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: carewemust
Semiconductors, thats pretty much the modern reason.
they are so important to the modern world right now that a defense is a must if you like your electronic stuff.
We are still a few years away from the startups producing it state side so we must defend, part of the reason Japan has said the self defense force will move to assist taiwan as well.