lol, what kind of reason is that? Existing thanks to the US' military means what exactly?

"I put the food on the table in this house and you will respect me, or so help me God I'll give you something to cry about."

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” — Henry Kissinger

That's what the parent comment meant

>They’re choice is move their factories offshore or give them up to China.

Then the question is why wouldn't they want to give them to PRC? TW semi was expanding fabs in mainland before US export controls, TW semi workers were being handsomely rewarded with huge compensation packages until DPP cracked down on cross strait headhunting/recruitment. Both profitable TW semi industry and underpaid TW semi workers benefitted massively from integrating with PRC semi, their choice was to give up to PRC, until (US) politics made that not a choice. So at least in that sense US stole the opportunities of TW semi that saw benefits to closer integration with - giving up - to PRC.

> give them up to China

I'm not sure the US would let this happen. Maybe they'd just level the factories with cruise missiles before China can get hold of them.

It is pretty well known that TSMC's factories and most other important Taiwanese industries that china would really like to get a hold of are already rigged to blow if needed.

>rigged to blow

Sounds like a stressful work environment.

Maybe if it was a WW3 scenario, but otherwise where would we get our chips?

Maybe from plants in the US or somewhere else in the world. I think in the end it's more important (from the perspective of the US) that China will not get that technology.

> Taiwan as a sovereign state

Does the USA recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No.

Does the PRC recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No.

Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland China? No.

The US position is just politics between super powers. They’re literally sending high technology weapons to counter China.

The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders.

Not sure how much more sovereign you can get than that.

> The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders.

Being that the Taiwanese government claims Beijing and Shanghai as being within its borders, I don't think that this is the case.

Again politics.

It’s a sovereign state with claims over a larger territory than it controls.

> Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland China? No.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) is not going to say that China is separate from china. Their position is that Taiwan is the rightful ruler of mainland china (currently controlled by the communist party).

Lots of US funded research is also globally funded because US attracts lots of talent and that talent costs quite a lot to educate. If there weren't the immigrants, the US wouldn't be the tech and science superpower that it is today.

Kudos for providing the opportunities for these brilliant people, great success through the year of executing programs for bringing Nazi scientists, Soviet scientists etc. but if we are going to keep tabs you might find out that that the American science and technology is not that much American after all.

You sound like someone who lives in the 50s. US higher ed is not funded globally at all. In fact US indirectly funds institutions abroad because many of the top academics were trained in the US especially in sciences.

And just why do you think all these brilliant people leave for the US? Let’s think about that for a moment.

Taiwanese Tech developed over work of Americans is American but tech developed over the work of Germans/British/French/Japanese is also American, got it. My apologies for sounding from 50s, my school is apparently 70 years behind.

May I as you what great school gave you this powerful reasoning powers are are you self taught?