alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up1725arrow-down116
arrow-up1709arrow-down1external-linkThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comalphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square211fedilink
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63arrow-down1·2 years agoThe US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edward@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·2 years agoisrael and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoIt’s not so much that the US needs Taiwan, Ukraine or Israel, it’s that they oppose China, Russian and the middle east.
minus-squarepinkwerdo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 years agoDosen’t the US need Taiwan for silicon manufacturing?
The US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
israel and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.
It’s not so much that the US needs Taiwan, Ukraine or Israel, it’s that they oppose China, Russian and the middle east.
Dosen’t the US need Taiwan for silicon manufacturing?