“What’s natural for Taiwan is we produce 95 percent” and “we feel great about it,” Lutnick said, conceding that “you can imagine when someone has 95 percent, convincing them that they should only have 50 percent. That’s a lot” to lose.
But “Donald Trump would say it’s not healthy for you or healthy for us because we protect you, and for us to protect you,” then “you need to help us achieve… reasonable self-sufficiency,” Lutnick argued.
To close the deal with Taiwan, Lutnick suggested that the US would offer “some kind of security guarantee” so that “they can expect” that moving their supply chain into the US won’t eliminate Taiwan’s so-called “silicon shield,” where countries like the US are willing to protect Taiwan because “we need their silicon, their chips, so badly.”
Trump trying out Juche while sacrificing Taiwan to China.
(Taiwan has no good option here, but sending chip production to the US is the worse one)
Ignore America and do nothing, PRC is not going to invade Taiwan.
I feel like if the US completely stopped it’s Taiwan meddling, the chances of peaceful merger go up significantly, which is bad for the political entity Taiwan even if it’s good for the people living in it.
Ironically north Korea will almost certainly become a tech powerhouse capable of advanced chip fabrication long before the US ever will