• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    semiconductors are probably the only reason why the american empire gives a rat’s ass about taiwan; without them, they would have been annexed by china by now and without american controversy.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      The US also cares about the island as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. The reason the US helped Taiwan develop industrially in the first place was for anticommunist cold war reasons.