President Biden says if China invades Taiwan - He Will Send the U.S. Military to Drive China Out.

originally posted by: TzarChasm

originally posted by: visitedbythem
Maybe China locking down their borders is is a clue

Their mobilization sweep definitely is. But as CWM astutely pondered, is Taiwan our responsibility and to what extent?

I bet you don't say the same about Ukraine...

Hopefully biden's words prevent china from invading.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
Let's go Brandon!

I totally agree with Biden on this.

Of course you do, whatever the wrong answer to the issue is, youre consistently on it

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
Let's go Brandon!

I totally agree with Biden on this.

You're going to pony up every last cent you got in your little pink piggy bank to pay for the attempt, yes?

Because we're deep in the red -- flat #ing broke as a country & eventually the dollar will be as valuable (read: worthless) as the Ruble, after we float Ukraine some more fresh dough.

Have fun.

a reply to: carewemust

Sleepy Joe just read his teleprompter wrong.

originally posted by: visitedbythem
Maybe China locking down their borders is is a clue

I think it was Guangzhou that recently said to prepare for a military economy instead of whatever the hell they're doing now. What China fails to realize is: we have technology that is fifty years ahead of anything the world has seen and if forced to use it all their ground troops won't mean anything.

originally posted by: imitator
Biden's staff immediately walked back illegitimate Joe's comments on Taiwan.

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.

Link: 👉 twitter.com...

If President Trump had made just 1% of the inappropriate, not correct, or weird statements Joe Biden makes, ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-NYT-WaPo-LATimes-DNC-Obama-Clinton-Clinton-Carter-the AMA-5000 Psychiatrists and 200 former Generals and Admirals, would be demanding that a full Cognitive Assessment of Trumps suitability as U.S. President, be conducted, ASAP!

I’m waiting on a deadly fungus that starts affecting Chinese rice exports. I’m waiting for it.

a reply to: carewemust

Yeah that should work out well.

After watching our half-assed response to Russia invading Ukraine, where we don't even have the balls to go all in on sanctions, there is no way we would respond to China invading Taiwan. There would be some token sanctions carefully calibrated to not anger the Chicoms. That's all.

originally posted by: VierEyes
a reply to: carewemust

His staff walked back his statement that we will defend Taiwan. Scumbags.

Which further reiterates that Joe Biden is not the President.

Every president makes misstatements, but his staff have to clarify the situation with him before they issue corrections.

Biden's misstatements are corrected before he even finishes talking. They don't have to check with him, because he is not in charge.

originally posted by: SleeperHasAwakened
A little info about TSMC chip foundry in Taiwan:

It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company,[5] the world's largest dedicated independent (pure-play) semiconductor foundry,[6] and one of Taiwan's largest companies,[7][8] with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu. It is majority owned by foreign investors.[9]

TSMC alone controls over 50% of the global semiconductor market share.

So when China overruns Taiwan (or even if they don't end up taking control but the island is ravaged by fighting), get ready to wait a lot lot longer for that new F-150 that's been delayed due to chip shortages, as in, when Hell freezes over.

The consequences of China taking over (or taking down) Taiwan would be devastating to the tech industry, and as chips/semiconductors have become integral parts of everything from PCs to refrigerators to trucks to doorbells, it's really hard to understate the impact that could have. Without knowing how long (or if) other chip foundries could be setup to take up slack from TSMC, we could be without replacement parts and equipment for making new "stuff" for years.

How the U.S. can let this status quo go on, with the world's leading chip manufacturer sitting a short boat ride from mainland China, is a testament to idiocy, greed and willful ignorance of those running the U.S..

Some senators/politicians have surely been paid off to look the other way on the Taiwain issue, and strategically planning to endure a loss of Taiwan chip mfg capacity.

Some senators/politicians are simply that stupid (or in many cases too old/senile) to understand the significance of what's at stake.

Some senators/politicians are so naive and gullible to believe that nobody would ever shatter the global supply chain by moving on Taiwan.

So the U.S. cannot afford to lose the tech manufacturing that Taiwan supplies. The best move would be to setup our own TSMC inside CONNUS, but again, that's too easy and too clever, which is why those friendly to China or those too stupid/trusting to understand what's at risk, are in power right now.

TSMC are building a chip factory under 10nm in Arizona, at 5nm. This is considered high tech, usually only ever manufactured in Tawaiin. However, all chips under 5nm are still held down tightly only in Tawain. They are working on 3nm chips and spending 70 billions on future investment into more fabs and research into 2nm. They will still be masters of this tech for a long time to come, but atleast 5nm chips will be manufactured in US, a good technology transfer. I think the US is shelling out 50BN to intel, TSMC and one other one.

You are entirely right on your assesment of shortsightness and greed leading to a devasting national security issue. Why the f--- would you entirely outsource the most sophisticated and important tech out to another country, next door to a potentially growing super power who has always seen Tawain as theirs, and even the US admits it, certainly back then in the 80's. They essentially shipped this off this tech to China, legally speaking.

No excuse for this. The lobbying and suseptiablilty of democracy to be corrupted by money and power will be US's end if it isn't changed by the people, somehow, someway. # has got to stop! ~JF

a reply to: TTU77

Operation Paperclip Taiwan Edition.

To spite China, Taiwan just needs to bring their secret chip formula to America.

We can plop the chip factory in Texas to go along with Frito-Lay.

Taiwan has advanced semiconductor industry. It was initially founded in Shanghai by Chinese experts. When CCP was about to overrun Shanghai they escaped to Taiwan. Taiwan is the most Mandarin country in the world with most 99 percent of the population speaking Mandarin.

Also, East Asian men are the smartest men in the world. Japanese used to be make the best electronics in the world. Now South Koreans and Chinese make the best electronics in the world. So Americans have no choice but to rely on East Asian men to make electronics.

Biden will give Taiwan to China.

It's a foregone conclusion.

He's shown himself to be weak and subservient to whomever is calling the shots.

It is true Western society is decadent. American men can no longer fight like they used to. 90 percent of American soldiers these days are from poor Hispanic or African American families. They refuse to fight in foreign wars. Also, US is a democracy. In democracy any president who goes to war gets voted out of office. America is not a dictatorship like Russia and China where president can do anything without consequence. In China the president can do covid lockdown without consequence, can throw anyone in jail without consequence. In democracy president cannot do that because people can vote him out of office.

Chinese men are far more brutal than Russian men. China bomb every power plant in Taiwan. Without power plant, there is no running water, no fuel. No fuel, no modern agriculture. Millions starve to death in Taiwan. Even Russian men do not bomb power plants in Ukraine. Biden clearly does not understand East Asian culture. East Asian culture is very different from Western culture which is far more lenient.

a reply to: carewemust

Would we be able to drive China out of Taiwan? Should we?

Could "we"? I seriously doubt it. The US military isn't what it used to be.
www.newsmax.com...
and:
www.defensenews.com... ea/

And it would be a logistical nightmare. Did we learn anything from Afghanistan?

Should "we"...........undoubtedly no! It simply isn't worth the cost. Better IMHO to begin evacuating Taiwan NOW; there's not very many of them; we need their chip factories.......scoop them up and relocate them to California.

Taiwan is very vulnerable to blockade. It is near Chinese mainland. Modern combat jets easily have combat radius more than 1,000 km, and that's without aerial refueling. J-20 take air superiority over Taiwan within days. H-6 bombers based at Kashgar means they can lob cruise missiles outside the range of Taiwanese air defense all day long. Taiwan has limited agricultural land and a dense population density. That makes Taiwan's food security vulnerable to blockade.