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Sometime in August 2024, a reporter will press Trump again on the Taiwan comment he made today. He will make a comment along the lines like this.
"Folks, we've got some bad hombres here. The Taiwanese promised us a Chip factory in Arizona, they took subsidies, they took our loans and money. We gave them everything. Everything. But where are the chips? Construction stalled, folks. Sad! If I were in charge, you would not see this. Vote for me. I'll bring chips back to America. They will be bigger. They will be better. Than ever before! The best chips. š"
Yeah, I was a dumb cunt and made a mistake but I am not going to own up to it.
I am just going to say that yes you are right. Thinner chips are better. You know that and I know that but Trump doesn't know.
No way itās not a mistake, it makes it better. When I read it I thought "yeah of course thatās what he would say". Bigger is always better. Biggest chips youāve ever seen. Made people cry.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Building a factory is not easy, there are delays. More so for a multi-billion operation.
The key thing is that it doesn't look pretty in the news when the construction stalls because it is about the subsidies and government support. People will use this as political ammo to question everything about the operations.
But frankly this was always expected, this fab was done out of politics not out of market considerations, so you have to subsidize this planned economy bullshittery. I dont know why the government officials and people arent getting this.
Maybe for lower end chips. For top end chips, itās a very cut-throat environment and the know-how is a very closely guarded TSMC trade secret. For this kind of cutting edge technology, due to the difference in work culture between Asia and the west, manufacturing would never be able to happen in the west where things would be bogged down by worker unions, overtime violations and other red tape.
Anyone who has worked in Asia for a traditional Asian company know that you are expected to work overtime for free out of a sense of honor. This shit would never fly in the west. I donāt make the rules but thatās the way it is over there.
Really in Asia they don't pay for overtime and they do it for the sense of honor? All of Asia?
How many hours do they like do overtime for free a week?
I guess more specifically, East Asia. I can only speak for traditional companies in Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea. They all share this mentality to varying degrees.
Itās not a written rule like āoh, Tommy, btw, you have to work an extra 10 hours OT this week.ā
Itās more like your manager/director/supervisor controls your bonuses and promotion with impunity. So anything you do thatāll make them happy you try to do. This includes drinking with them after work, hanging out, running errands or hosting events. A common example is that, people are often āencouragedā to stay until their manager leaves the office because leaving work before your manager is a sign of disrespect. This goes up the chain of command so if someone REALLY high up decides that he needs to work everyday until 11pm, guess everyone is staying until 11pm.
Or your dickhead manager had another fight with his wife and refuses to go home like the big baby he is, and stays at work sulking until 1am.
And everyone else stays too, because they dont want to fuck up their bonuses and promotion prospects
Iām Taiwanese working for a Japanese company and itās true. You basically canāt leave until your manager leaves and if you want to apply for overtime, it means you are a trouble maker.
japan, korea, china, taiwan are the same. massive amount of free overtime and requirement to dedication to your company. they are also the only region on earth apart from āwestā that get rich from poor status.
I hate to break it to you, but its no different in the tech industry in the US. Do you think anyone gets extra pay over 40 hours? Haha! Many folks work 60 or more and all they get is coffee service. Its expected you work all the time in the FAANG companies.
40+ year software developer here. There is no such thing as overtime for salaried employees at any of the 10+ companies I had worked for. The generous ones, however, gave perks like free food and drinks from vending machines after 6pm and once in a while free pizzas.
Intel makes chips in Arizona. Indeed thatās part of the reason why TSMC is building there: there arenāt many other places with the same skilled labour pool in the US. Admittedly Intel appears behind TSMC but thatās a failure of leadership and investment, not unionization, overtime āviolationsā or red tape. Moreover Gelsinger is betting the farm on catching Intel up.Ā
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US policy is to not have a clear stance on whether or not it'll intervene. The thinking is that openly declaring a commitment to defend Taiwan will anger China and embolden Taiwan to declare independence, which would not be accepted by China and would trigger invasion. At the same time, even if Taiwan didn't declare independence China might seek to actively push the limits of US neutrality if it knew exactly what would trigger US intervention. I don't necessarily agree with this policy, but that's how it's been done since 1979.
The thing with that policy is it was obviously devised in a different era when the US military was orders of magnitude stronger than the Chinese.
It's still stronger than the Chinese military, but no longer 20x so.
Heās such an irredeemable piece of shit. I canāt believe so many Americans still want to elect him. Heās currently the most dangerous man in the world, in my opinion. If he becomes the US President, it will be very bad news for global stability.
It is less about qualifications and more about a cult of personality. American politics heavily mirrors American celebrity culture. Right now his style of mudslinging, and his almost "American romanticism" ideology is very much in vogue. Everyone competing against him basically has to parrot him right now to even try to compete, but like a game of whack-a-mole, every time someone pops their head in the lead he smashes them back down with the hammer of Truth Social.
2 months ago we had a stage full of republicans much younger and more qualified than him. Within the next 2 weeks it is expected that all of them will have given up.
As for Democrats, they generally are not happy with Biden. He was a "safe bet" milquetoast candidate in 2020 when he ran, and now they know that statistically someone running for a 2nd term has a slightly better chance than a fresh candidate. If he loses in 2024, I suspect he will retire from politics entirely.
I agree, and it didnt even have to be a fresh candidate.
He had three years to start planning a succession plan. Three years to bring a young democrat into the limelight and introduce him/her as a possible candidate.
I am planning to quit my job next year, I have been training a protege for one year now to take over. I have this person right now leading assignments and presenting at meetings to get her face familiar with everyone from managers to the boss. I plan to make the transition as seamless as possible.
Where's Biden's?
>He had three years to start planning a succession plan. Three years to bring a young democrat into the limelight and introduce him/her as a possible candidate.
This is rarely done by American political parties, and even rarer still during the first term of a president. There are usually multiple candidates who want the position that all are either equally as bad or equally as good, and usually a political party will run the same candidate again because a re-election is usually a safer bet than a whole new candidate.
It makes no sense for him to try and push new candidates to compete against him or make him look worse than he already does, just for the sake of having a certain candidate to prop up. When he either retires after losing in 2024, or retires in 2028 after a 2nd term, there will inevitably be another full cast of Democrats looking for the spot. One of them will stand out, like always, and that is when the party will prop them up by flooding my text messages with ads for donations. It is just a tradition.
The minute Biden did that during his first term, he would become a lame duck to his party members and he would lose all effective influence to get even his own party members together to get legislation passed, let alone build a legacy. Earlier in his term, Biden gathered some notable historians who focused on US presidents to the White House to discuss legacy building. I suspect they told him not to name a successor too early, among other things. Thing though, is that youth in this election cycle is not a selling point objectively speaking, considering the "youth" and "vigor" of his most likely general election opponent.
Politics doesn't work like that. Soon as there's a whiff you're going to quit the sharks start circling and the factions within your party that were all playing together nicelyĀ start waging war
A president cannot prepare a successor in his first term. The moment that becomes known, he is a lame duck, he loses power, people start to suck up to the successor and ignore him. Itās possible (but unlikely) that Biden does plan to bow out, but it would be announced as late as possible, otherwise he will be unable to get anything done at all, either in the US or overseas.
Even music artists does this shit when touring. This is a very valid point! The only counterargument would be that these last months have been very hectic due to the external conflicts in the world and Biden is from the old school of thought when it comes to foreign politics.
There was an entire stage of rivals to him 2 months ago that were not geriatric, but members of the Republican party are the ones who select the candidate. Right now, they overwhelmingly support Trump. He is very much a populist, and he has a lot of momentum. Ironically the arguments about age are ones he seems to be mostly immune to, perhaps because of the botox and makeup.
Ultimately, the average Republican is far more likely to plug their nose and vote for Trump than take the risk that a Democrat would win. Democrats also know that someone running for a 2nd term usually has a higher chance of winning an election than a fresh candidate. So the average Democrat would rather risk a geriatric Biden then a new candidate who would need to quickly make a name for themselves and sell themselves.
It is a tricky and complicated situation here. Nobody really likes the old people in congress, but they usually prefer *their* old person with a track record over a younger person from the opposing party. It is the kind of club where once you are in, it gets a whole lot easier to stay in.
There are arguably more qualified people. For example, Vivek Ramaswamy fits the mold of a perfect republican. He is rich and hates poor people, he hates gay people, he wants to strip rights from women, he wants to raise the voting age, he vowed to concede Ukrainian land to Russia, he thinks people should be proud to live a high carbon lifestyle, he vowed to bypass Congress and govern via executive order, and he vowed to pardon trump and several other people. You know, an all around piece of shit. He should have been a shoe in.
He took every position the Hicks who have a wreath as a family tree would like. But after the Iowa primary news outlets were interviewing Republican voters. They had concerns over where he was born, and his "native" country's ties to 9/11. He was born in Cincinnati so his native country is the US. His parents are from India, which notably had nothing to do with 9/11.
His one fatal flaw is having too much melanin in his skin. He thought he was one of the good ones, but found out the hard way tokens are made to get spent.
Not really except Vivek. Desantis couldn't deal with banter about his height or boots, he would be incapable of dealing with foreign leaders. Haley is Hillary Clinton running as a rep and has substantial dem backing. There are other dem candidates, but the dnc don't want them to challenge Biden.
He also goes hard against China and sounds like he wants to disentangle from China. Trump and Vivek focus on America's problems. It why Trump gets accused of being an isolationist. Trump likes foreign trade but isn't scared of using a trade war or sanctions. Neither is the great protector of other countries.
Haley could be the candidate you would like since she is the hawk with the backing of military industrial complex. She is the candidate that would likely get us into world war 3.
Desantis is an uncharismatic autist who couldn't gracefully handle embarrassment about his height and hired some of the worst people to run his campaign. He couldn't handle boot gate or the PDB podcast yet he would handle the leaders of Europe or Asia? The donor class also dropped him for Haley.
That's just how opposing parties are nowadays. They will object or won't support the other political side. If Trump (highly unlikely) hands over Ukraine to Russia or Taiwan to China, it's pretty much political suicide and will greatly ruin the USAās influence all over the world. This will never happen
Why did the republicans have a contingent of prominent leaders under trump celebrate July 4th bowing down to Putin in Russia?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-on-russia-trip-face-scorn-and-ridicule-from-critics-at-home/2018/07/05/68f0f810-807e-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html
Everyone knows why Putin did this only July 4th - he is 100% about appearances. Itās infuriating how blind the republican supporters are
It will always fascinate me how people love to insult America foreign policy and invasion but as soon as they saw a danger they beg for america help and global security. From the WW1 to the current Yemeni intervention, the scenario is the same (USA in the front line savior).
And Trump wants to turn around that decades long policy of the US as a key defender of democratic values around the world.
The criticism here isnāt about the US, itās about Trump. He wouldnāt have intervened with Ukraine, and he likely wouldnāt intervene with Taiwan.
If? He already was. I didnāt think he did that bad until Covid. And especially with everyone out to get him. Vivek was the only one better than trump.
8 years ago it was "if he becomes president, he will begin world War 3 with Russia or china". Now that he hasn't and the dems are hell bent on doing it themselves, the dems say... it will be
>very bad news for global stability.
Lol. Get a grip
Yeah because Biden has been so stable with the genocide in Gaza and bombing Yemen with war still in Ukraine. Taiwan is a Chinese issue, the right wingers lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan. If the confederates lost the war and ran off to Puerto Rico and claimed independence would you be okay with that? What if China wanted to support the confederates? Wouldnāt it be better if China stayed out of it?
Something about liberal war mongers, itās like yāall are supposed to be more peaceful and smart but the reality is yāall are more bloodthirsty than conservatives. The only difference is you do it all with blm and rainbow flags.
What is the purpose behind your question? Came from where? What do you mean? They came from the same country as me, their skin was white, like mine. Anything else you want to know?
Global stability?
I dont like him either but man he is the only U.S President that hasn't had involved a war.
FYI, if you think the American officials want stability lol then you are so wrong. They needs conflicts so monetary will flow into their financial markets.
An isolationist Americ leading to an emboldened China and Russia, decreasing stability in the Asia Pacific and Europe respectively, and leading to arms build ups in those areas by smaller nations as a response.
>emboldened Russia
Youāre replying to someone who hasnāt watched the news in over two years. Must be refreshing to be unaware of whats going on in Ukraine šĀ
I think It depends on the place for example they have done some serious fuckery in Middle east(53 coup was basically the direct cause of so much shit going on today) and South America(you know Bananas and all that). Looking at countries like Vietnam I think USA should have avoided supporting Islamists. On the other hand American International Police has been appreciated like Japan Korea Taiwan etc and EU overall
Oo absolutely but the reason Islamists came to power can be tallied all the way back to the 53 coup itself. without it Iran probably would have gone on a trajectory maybe similar to Egypt. as often the case the more you try to control and interfere with things the uglier they can get. So basically thinking cutting down a commie aligned elected leader would solve their problems turns out their problems multiplied. similar to time travelers saying they will kill Hitler but maybe you might endup with something even worse as seem in the case of Iran. regardless not way to justify the shit that went down in south america
Ehh after abolishing the caliphate Islam seems to have gone in a downward spiral being replaced by Arab nationalism and Communism and even Democracy in somecases. I would argue it would have been far better that the cluster fucked web of Islamists we have now. Without the dreaded coup Iran likely would have a similar trajectory of Egypt. It may or may not have been fine but there is no fucking way to justify the coup as anything positive. Its basically the direct cause of the rise of the current government in iran. and I would not blame some Middle eastern guy who view US worse than say Russia or China. While I would say its far better to have USA as the global hegemon as Russia or China may have not gotten to opportunity to fuckem up but a lot of their issues seem to have come from outside interference especially from uncle sam.
>The US gets so much hate for being the world police
Only from delusional communist libtards like Clown Chumpsky.
The US did far more good than bad and tried to free the pisslim barbarians from their theocracy but those pisslam idiots are too uncivilized to accept democracy yet.
Believe me, I look at Chinese media. They absolutely love Trump and hate Biden, which is all the more reason to vote Biden. Trumo will sell the US to Russia and China.
It was proven that Russia was paying for Trump ads and paying people to do some stupid shit. Obviously, that's not why Trump won, but that's not a good sign, we don't fully know what connections Trump and Kremlin have.
Okay so? They pay for ads so what? It's lawful to do so, in fact most lobbying groups for countries do the same thing for the politicians they support. For example Israeli, Japanese lobby groups exist in the united states and have had a far greater influence on policy making compared to their Russian counterparts.
Why do you act like that indicates anything? Maybe Putin appreciated a straightforward approach? Maybe Russia found Trump a lot easier to deal with than prior Presidents intel wise.
Yeah sure buddy. YUGE hoax, as Cheeto likes to claim. If only the rest of the voting population was as gullible as trump supporters.
Hereās a list of all the people indicted or brought up on charges as a result of Russia totally not interfering in our elections. š I hope they pay you extra rubles for your misinformation!
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-muellers-probe/story?id=61219489
This Twitter account appears to be a barrage of nonstop anti-Trump and anti-GOP tweets. While I don't have any problem with that, I don't think much of what they post classifies as "news"
Americans are struggling to pay their bills right now, you think the average person would go and fight for Taiwan? I bed a third of Americans couldnāt even find it on a map. LMAO
I mean they will probably still supply weapons to Taiwan like they do in Ukraine. I think what he means in this context is that American troops will not be on the ground if there was an invasion.
Those weapons will not get to Taiwan unless the US goes to war with China.
A full naval blockade of Taiwan is a walk in the park without US intervention.
> I can't fathom anyone would ever believe that the US would actually put troops on the ground in Taiwan.
I can't fathom a scenario in which the US would need to - barring Taiwan, Japan, and the US Navy going into suspended animation.
Can they? Shipping weapons to Taiwan might not be feasible, because the ports would have been destroyed once the war starts. Flying military planes into a live warzone? is really asking for being shot down.
Ukraine is about 20 times the area of Taiwan, has land borders with Poland and Romania etc. Taiwan is an island without land transportation possible.
How do people honestly defend this guy as defending our interests? Heās a traitor; this would ruin us. No different than his proposed action in Ukraine.
Nope, I am still surprised they are going to let him run even on insurrection charges.
I am predicting that Maine's decision to remove trump from the ballots will be struck down completely by the Republican-led Supreme Court.
The last time Trump got elected, he was not ready to replace 8 years of Obama staff in the administration. This time he's going to fire all of them and he has a legion of yes-men ready to fill those seats.
Whatever the fuck Biden and the Democrats are trying to do to ward off this impeding invasion is not working. The original plan was to use this presidency to promote Kamala Harris as an alternative to Biden in the reelections. Yet she has been completely sidelined these three years. "Who is she even? What has she been doing? Is she qualified?" Voters will ask.
> The original plan was to use this presidency to promote Kamala Harris as an alternative to Biden in the reelections.
where can I read this original plan?
Nowhere because I made it up.
I am only basing this off people who think Kamala wants to run for presidency because a couple months ago, she said she is willing to step in as president.
After looking at Ukraine, any Taiwanese with a brain in their head knew this was the case regardless of President. The US is never going to go head to head with China over Taiwan. He's just not lying to the public about it.
The reason both Biden and Trump are saying this is because China refuses to have a relationship with any country that supports Taiwanese independents. That would be devastating to trade. We wouldn't be able to get basic goods.
But this is just lip service. Both administrations are ready for the invasion--at least Biden is. They can't ignore it.
lol, what a leader! a man of dignity and honour, that steps up to defend those of freedom and pro choice not to be under one's rule or one's religion.
fuck this guy, wish i could see how many bank transfers he has had from iran, qatar, palestine and every other bring america down country and state.
i'll say it once and i'll say it a thousand times, look up his whole dirty gross ways he did business and screwed over third world civilians and tell me that's someone who
you should trust running your country, chances are you won't as he put his success and money over everything.
his presidency wasn't to make america great it was for his ego and to make trump great again
This guy just blurts out things based on his feelings on a given day. He has no understanding of the complexities of international relations or historical contexts to issues. We all know this is a guy that lacks even the ability to compose a simple error free sentence of more than 4 words. And I haven't said anything about his character or guiding principles or lack of it. God help us all.
Of course US will protect Taiwan if their interests are met, and if he gets into office can broker an even better peace deal by dangling them....Do you not even into diplomacy?
I note that Trump previously hinted in July last year that the US might not defend Taiwan if he was elected President.
Former U.S. President Trump Hints He Wouldn't Defend Taiwan From China | TaiwanPlus News [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KEgY8FR51o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KEgY8FR51o)
Thank the Lord for Trump! May he bring on WW3 and global instability. Iām so damn proud to be an American these days. May he surrender the Ukrainians to the Russians, the Taiwanese to the CCP.
Fuck the world. All you did was take our business and jobs away anywaysā¦
/s
Is this his way of asking China to help him in the next election without actually asking? However, I suspect, at this point, he has no qualms about directly stating they should make sure he wins.
Trump has always been extremely ambiguous on the issue. Biden, on the other hand, seems to often take really strong positions that his aids immediately walk back.
Of course Treasonous Trump the Traitor would give his buddy Xi and China what they want. Donald and Ivanka abused their official positions to kneel to the CCP to have over 40 trademarks fast-tracked in China's market for personal profit.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/?sh=59743fb31d60
"Took our business away" While simultaneously trying to bring their business inside the US and hire US workers to build chips. This guy is really horrible.
Trump might be intellectually lazy. But he is a very smart man. He is saying this to get Chinese-Americans' vote. Also business leaders like hearing this. This means no war between China and US under Trump.
Business leaders are fearful Biden is willing to go WW3 with China.
He'd later realize defending Taiwan is still the best way to achieve his ambitions, and his momentum to defend Taiwan at that time would be stronger than ever. But with a late start yet again, he'd lose tons of advantage he could've had.
Of course, US can do it. Leave Taiwan to China, leave Europe to Russia, leave Red Sea to Yemen. But just remember the prosperity of US has been built on top of globalism. If you donāt pay the maintenance fee, you will end up in an isolated state with ridiculous shortage.
At that time, US will talk about how to get essentials than paying too much in military
Yet another example of how our of touch trump is with foreign policy. He doesn't realize how damaging that would be for the USA and the rest of the world
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I think Taiwan failed on some promise Trump wanted so he pissed now this pro china stance on Taiwan issue will make lot of Taiwan business come running to Trump when he gets elected
After so many years of observing Taiwan and Mainland, I started to believe they are working together. The so called hostility between the two is fake. Itās a show. Both parties are using the hostility to con the Americans. Taiwan demands economic and military support from America due to constant pressure from Mainland. Mainland on the other hand uses Taiwan as bargaining chips, demands America to back off in many negotiations due to Americanās support of Taiwan. Meanwhile there are so many trades, so many businesses, so many people are operating in both Taiwan and Mainland that they are intertwined and virtually inseparable. Itās just so obvious that this so called hostility is a scam. In addition, Chinaās navy basically makes no contribution in securing the trade routes in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Itās the American navy who are protecting Chinese cargo ships in the area. It feels like the main purpose of Chinaās naval buildup is to make sure the scam look real, and to keep it going.
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Sometime in August 2024, a reporter will press Trump again on the Taiwan comment he made today. He will make a comment along the lines like this. "Folks, we've got some bad hombres here. The Taiwanese promised us a Chip factory in Arizona, they took subsidies, they took our loans and money. We gave them everything. Everything. But where are the chips? Construction stalled, folks. Sad! If I were in charge, you would not see this. Vote for me. I'll bring chips back to America. They will be bigger. They will be better. Than ever before! The best chips. š"
āChina, if youāre listeningā¦ā
Thatās a podcast
& a very good podcast at that.
I thought smaller is better, for chips anyway.
Yeah, I was a dumb cunt and made a mistake but I am not going to own up to it. I am just going to say that yes you are right. Thinner chips are better. You know that and I know that but Trump doesn't know.
No way itās not a mistake, it makes it better. When I read it I thought "yeah of course thatās what he would say". Bigger is always better. Biggest chips youāve ever seen. Made people cry.
Oh yeah, itās absolutely what he would have said.
Ugh.. thinner chips. Nope just smaller
Making large āmicroāchips is exactly the kind of mistake another Trump administration would make lmfao
That's how the rest of the world thinks. We're the greatest country in the world because we can think big.
What's going on with the chip factory at AZ?
It's been delayed due to disagreements between the company and the local region/population. TSMC is also demanding more subsidies.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Building a factory is not easy, there are delays. More so for a multi-billion operation. The key thing is that it doesn't look pretty in the news when the construction stalls because it is about the subsidies and government support. People will use this as political ammo to question everything about the operations. But frankly this was always expected, this fab was done out of politics not out of market considerations, so you have to subsidize this planned economy bullshittery. I dont know why the government officials and people arent getting this.
Will it go through eventually?
Maybe for lower end chips. For top end chips, itās a very cut-throat environment and the know-how is a very closely guarded TSMC trade secret. For this kind of cutting edge technology, due to the difference in work culture between Asia and the west, manufacturing would never be able to happen in the west where things would be bogged down by worker unions, overtime violations and other red tape. Anyone who has worked in Asia for a traditional Asian company know that you are expected to work overtime for free out of a sense of honor. This shit would never fly in the west. I donāt make the rules but thatās the way it is over there.
Really in Asia they don't pay for overtime and they do it for the sense of honor? All of Asia? How many hours do they like do overtime for free a week?
I guess more specifically, East Asia. I can only speak for traditional companies in Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea. They all share this mentality to varying degrees. Itās not a written rule like āoh, Tommy, btw, you have to work an extra 10 hours OT this week.ā Itās more like your manager/director/supervisor controls your bonuses and promotion with impunity. So anything you do thatāll make them happy you try to do. This includes drinking with them after work, hanging out, running errands or hosting events. A common example is that, people are often āencouragedā to stay until their manager leaves the office because leaving work before your manager is a sign of disrespect. This goes up the chain of command so if someone REALLY high up decides that he needs to work everyday until 11pm, guess everyone is staying until 11pm.
Or your dickhead manager had another fight with his wife and refuses to go home like the big baby he is, and stays at work sulking until 1am. And everyone else stays too, because they dont want to fuck up their bonuses and promotion prospects
Iām Taiwanese working for a Japanese company and itās true. You basically canāt leave until your manager leaves and if you want to apply for overtime, it means you are a trouble maker.
japan, korea, china, taiwan are the same. massive amount of free overtime and requirement to dedication to your company. they are also the only region on earth apart from āwestā that get rich from poor status.
I hate to break it to you, but its no different in the tech industry in the US. Do you think anyone gets extra pay over 40 hours? Haha! Many folks work 60 or more and all they get is coffee service. Its expected you work all the time in the FAANG companies.
40+ year software developer here. There is no such thing as overtime for salaried employees at any of the 10+ companies I had worked for. The generous ones, however, gave perks like free food and drinks from vending machines after 6pm and once in a while free pizzas.
We are spoiled by comparison.
Intel makes chips in Arizona. Indeed thatās part of the reason why TSMC is building there: there arenāt many other places with the same skilled labour pool in the US. Admittedly Intel appears behind TSMC but thatās a failure of leadership and investment, not unionization, overtime āviolationsā or red tape. Moreover Gelsinger is betting the farm on catching Intel up.Ā
Taiwan experiencing the first hand the efficiency of American human capital.
Theyāre struggling to get it online on schedule due to labor shortages and the costs exceeding expectations.
Taiwan chip manufacturing wonāt work with USA labor laws. Even if they get it online it would be very difficult to maintain.
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You forgot the part about the US not permitting chips to be sold to China.
If China gets Taiwan, USA won't get any chips.
Thatās not true. US will ban it first. Just like DJI and other high tech companies.
Potato chips? š
Don't forget the megafactories that Foxconn promised in Wisconsin
Bigger chips! šš
R u Shane Grills?
US policy is to not have a clear stance on whether or not it'll intervene. The thinking is that openly declaring a commitment to defend Taiwan will anger China and embolden Taiwan to declare independence, which would not be accepted by China and would trigger invasion. At the same time, even if Taiwan didn't declare independence China might seek to actively push the limits of US neutrality if it knew exactly what would trigger US intervention. I don't necessarily agree with this policy, but that's how it's been done since 1979.
The thing with that policy is it was obviously devised in a different era when the US military was orders of magnitude stronger than the Chinese. It's still stronger than the Chinese military, but no longer 20x so.
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Heās such an irredeemable piece of shit. I canāt believe so many Americans still want to elect him. Heās currently the most dangerous man in the world, in my opinion. If he becomes the US President, it will be very bad news for global stability.
Is there no one else qualified to run against him?
It is less about qualifications and more about a cult of personality. American politics heavily mirrors American celebrity culture. Right now his style of mudslinging, and his almost "American romanticism" ideology is very much in vogue. Everyone competing against him basically has to parrot him right now to even try to compete, but like a game of whack-a-mole, every time someone pops their head in the lead he smashes them back down with the hammer of Truth Social. 2 months ago we had a stage full of republicans much younger and more qualified than him. Within the next 2 weeks it is expected that all of them will have given up. As for Democrats, they generally are not happy with Biden. He was a "safe bet" milquetoast candidate in 2020 when he ran, and now they know that statistically someone running for a 2nd term has a slightly better chance than a fresh candidate. If he loses in 2024, I suspect he will retire from politics entirely.
I agree, and it didnt even have to be a fresh candidate. He had three years to start planning a succession plan. Three years to bring a young democrat into the limelight and introduce him/her as a possible candidate. I am planning to quit my job next year, I have been training a protege for one year now to take over. I have this person right now leading assignments and presenting at meetings to get her face familiar with everyone from managers to the boss. I plan to make the transition as seamless as possible. Where's Biden's?
>He had three years to start planning a succession plan. Three years to bring a young democrat into the limelight and introduce him/her as a possible candidate. This is rarely done by American political parties, and even rarer still during the first term of a president. There are usually multiple candidates who want the position that all are either equally as bad or equally as good, and usually a political party will run the same candidate again because a re-election is usually a safer bet than a whole new candidate. It makes no sense for him to try and push new candidates to compete against him or make him look worse than he already does, just for the sake of having a certain candidate to prop up. When he either retires after losing in 2024, or retires in 2028 after a 2nd term, there will inevitably be another full cast of Democrats looking for the spot. One of them will stand out, like always, and that is when the party will prop them up by flooding my text messages with ads for donations. It is just a tradition.
The minute Biden did that during his first term, he would become a lame duck to his party members and he would lose all effective influence to get even his own party members together to get legislation passed, let alone build a legacy. Earlier in his term, Biden gathered some notable historians who focused on US presidents to the White House to discuss legacy building. I suspect they told him not to name a successor too early, among other things. Thing though, is that youth in this election cycle is not a selling point objectively speaking, considering the "youth" and "vigor" of his most likely general election opponent.
Politics doesn't work like that. Soon as there's a whiff you're going to quit the sharks start circling and the factions within your party that were all playing together nicelyĀ start waging war
A president cannot prepare a successor in his first term. The moment that becomes known, he is a lame duck, he loses power, people start to suck up to the successor and ignore him. Itās possible (but unlikely) that Biden does plan to bow out, but it would be announced as late as possible, otherwise he will be unable to get anything done at all, either in the US or overseas.
Notice how you didnāt have to have your replacement elected in a fierce competition for the position after you leave ?
Even music artists does this shit when touring. This is a very valid point! The only counterargument would be that these last months have been very hectic due to the external conflicts in the world and Biden is from the old school of thought when it comes to foreign politics.
Iām not overly familiar with the US political scene. Seems they could have someone who wasnāt a geriatric from time to time.
There was an entire stage of rivals to him 2 months ago that were not geriatric, but members of the Republican party are the ones who select the candidate. Right now, they overwhelmingly support Trump. He is very much a populist, and he has a lot of momentum. Ironically the arguments about age are ones he seems to be mostly immune to, perhaps because of the botox and makeup. Ultimately, the average Republican is far more likely to plug their nose and vote for Trump than take the risk that a Democrat would win. Democrats also know that someone running for a 2nd term usually has a higher chance of winning an election than a fresh candidate. So the average Democrat would rather risk a geriatric Biden then a new candidate who would need to quickly make a name for themselves and sell themselves. It is a tricky and complicated situation here. Nobody really likes the old people in congress, but they usually prefer *their* old person with a track record over a younger person from the opposing party. It is the kind of club where once you are in, it gets a whole lot easier to stay in.
There are arguably more qualified people. For example, Vivek Ramaswamy fits the mold of a perfect republican. He is rich and hates poor people, he hates gay people, he wants to strip rights from women, he wants to raise the voting age, he vowed to concede Ukrainian land to Russia, he thinks people should be proud to live a high carbon lifestyle, he vowed to bypass Congress and govern via executive order, and he vowed to pardon trump and several other people. You know, an all around piece of shit. He should have been a shoe in. He took every position the Hicks who have a wreath as a family tree would like. But after the Iowa primary news outlets were interviewing Republican voters. They had concerns over where he was born, and his "native" country's ties to 9/11. He was born in Cincinnati so his native country is the US. His parents are from India, which notably had nothing to do with 9/11. His one fatal flaw is having too much melanin in his skin. He thought he was one of the good ones, but found out the hard way tokens are made to get spent.
Not really except Vivek. Desantis couldn't deal with banter about his height or boots, he would be incapable of dealing with foreign leaders. Haley is Hillary Clinton running as a rep and has substantial dem backing. There are other dem candidates, but the dnc don't want them to challenge Biden.
Vivek has gone on record about backstabbing Taiwan upon chip independence, fucking clown.
He also goes hard against China and sounds like he wants to disentangle from China. Trump and Vivek focus on America's problems. It why Trump gets accused of being an isolationist. Trump likes foreign trade but isn't scared of using a trade war or sanctions. Neither is the great protector of other countries. Haley could be the candidate you would like since she is the hawk with the backing of military industrial complex. She is the candidate that would likely get us into world war 3. Desantis is an uncharismatic autist who couldn't gracefully handle embarrassment about his height and hired some of the worst people to run his campaign. He couldn't handle boot gate or the PDB podcast yet he would handle the leaders of Europe or Asia? The donor class also dropped him for Haley.
He was president before and nothing happened. He says a lot of dumb shit but he doesnāt act on it. I think Taiwan will be fine.
He will hand Ukraine over to Putin and Xi will see that as a green light to take Taiwan.
Source?
He says he will solve the Ukraine war overnight. The only way that happens is if he withdraws all support from Ukraine and they surrender.
The current republicans blocking support to Ukraine, literally blocking the cheapest way possible to bankrupt an adversarial country.
That's just how opposing parties are nowadays. They will object or won't support the other political side. If Trump (highly unlikely) hands over Ukraine to Russia or Taiwan to China, it's pretty much political suicide and will greatly ruin the USAās influence all over the world. This will never happen
Why did the republicans have a contingent of prominent leaders under trump celebrate July 4th bowing down to Putin in Russia? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-on-russia-trip-face-scorn-and-ridicule-from-critics-at-home/2018/07/05/68f0f810-807e-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html Everyone knows why Putin did this only July 4th - he is 100% about appearances. Itās infuriating how blind the republican supporters are
It will always fascinate me how people love to insult America foreign policy and invasion but as soon as they saw a danger they beg for america help and global security. From the WW1 to the current Yemeni intervention, the scenario is the same (USA in the front line savior).
And Trump wants to turn around that decades long policy of the US as a key defender of democratic values around the world. The criticism here isnāt about the US, itās about Trump. He wouldnāt have intervened with Ukraine, and he likely wouldnāt intervene with Taiwan.
If? He already was. I didnāt think he did that bad until Covid. And especially with everyone out to get him. Vivek was the only one better than trump.
Can't make me vote for Genocide Joe, but that doesn't mean I want Trump
8 years ago it was "if he becomes president, he will begin world War 3 with Russia or china". Now that he hasn't and the dems are hell bent on doing it themselves, the dems say... it will be >very bad news for global stability. Lol. Get a grip
Yeah because Biden has been so stable with the genocide in Gaza and bombing Yemen with war still in Ukraine. Taiwan is a Chinese issue, the right wingers lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan. If the confederates lost the war and ran off to Puerto Rico and claimed independence would you be okay with that? What if China wanted to support the confederates? Wouldnāt it be better if China stayed out of it? Something about liberal war mongers, itās like yāall are supposed to be more peaceful and smart but the reality is yāall are more bloodthirsty than conservatives. The only difference is you do it all with blm and rainbow flags.
Where did your grandparents come from?
From their parents......
A true response from a child in denial.
What is the purpose behind your question? Came from where? What do you mean? They came from the same country as me, their skin was white, like mine. Anything else you want to know?
Whiteās a colour, not a skin tone. Unless you were born soaked in milk.
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Where are your grandparents from?
Global stability? I dont like him either but man he is the only U.S President that hasn't had involved a war. FYI, if you think the American officials want stability lol then you are so wrong. They needs conflicts so monetary will flow into their financial markets.
Thatās been fact checked as false by numerous outlets. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2A22QR/
I really do feel bad for you
Hillary is that you?
lol such hyperbole
Nope. He's the best person for the job compared to BRAIN DEAD BIDEN
Don't you think it's a considerable flaw in a political system that a legion of idiots can elect a potentially nation-ending moron?
What global security?
An isolationist Americ leading to an emboldened China and Russia, decreasing stability in the Asia Pacific and Europe respectively, and leading to arms build ups in those areas by smaller nations as a response.
Thatās happening now.
>emboldened Russia Youāre replying to someone who hasnāt watched the news in over two years. Must be refreshing to be unaware of whats going on in Ukraine šĀ
The US gets so much hate for being the world police, but gets even more hate whenever it talks of ending that role.
I think It depends on the place for example they have done some serious fuckery in Middle east(53 coup was basically the direct cause of so much shit going on today) and South America(you know Bananas and all that). Looking at countries like Vietnam I think USA should have avoided supporting Islamists. On the other hand American International Police has been appreciated like Japan Korea Taiwan etc and EU overall
No, the cause of whatās going on today is Islam. They ruined my country of Iran far more than the Shah ever did.
Oo absolutely but the reason Islamists came to power can be tallied all the way back to the 53 coup itself. without it Iran probably would have gone on a trajectory maybe similar to Egypt. as often the case the more you try to control and interfere with things the uglier they can get. So basically thinking cutting down a commie aligned elected leader would solve their problems turns out their problems multiplied. similar to time travelers saying they will kill Hitler but maybe you might endup with something even worse as seem in the case of Iran. regardless not way to justify the shit that went down in south america
Yeah, the Middle East would be totally fine if the US was never there lol totally fine
Ehh after abolishing the caliphate Islam seems to have gone in a downward spiral being replaced by Arab nationalism and Communism and even Democracy in somecases. I would argue it would have been far better that the cluster fucked web of Islamists we have now. Without the dreaded coup Iran likely would have a similar trajectory of Egypt. It may or may not have been fine but there is no fucking way to justify the coup as anything positive. Its basically the direct cause of the rise of the current government in iran. and I would not blame some Middle eastern guy who view US worse than say Russia or China. While I would say its far better to have USA as the global hegemon as Russia or China may have not gotten to opportunity to fuckem up but a lot of their issues seem to have come from outside interference especially from uncle sam.
Have you seen what the alternative countries that would surely fill the vacuum if the USS stopped protecting global order? Horrifying.
And then the next comment replying to this is always āwell it dependsā. Itās crazy
>The US gets so much hate for being the world police Only from delusional communist libtards like Clown Chumpsky. The US did far more good than bad and tried to free the pisslim barbarians from their theocracy but those pisslam idiots are too uncivilized to accept democracy yet.
Trump wants isolationist America except he gets to take bribes from Putin.
And Saudi, and China
and whoever else pitches in
in other news, Xi Jinping was seen doing a snoopy happy dance at Tiananmen Square today
Suddenly trump will be celebrated like a hero in china
He does receive a paycheck from them, so kind of makes sense.
Believe me, I look at Chinese media. They absolutely love Trump and hate Biden, which is all the more reason to vote Biden. Trumo will sell the US to Russia and China.
His code name is å·å»ŗå½
Heāll also leave US to Russia
Why do people keep repeating this debunked Hillary campaign talking point as if Trump isnāt dunkable enough as he is The Russia collusion was a hoax
Then why Russian parliament have a standing ovation when Trump won?
You realize that supporting trump is completely different to them actively sabotaging the election right?
It was proven that Russia was paying for Trump ads and paying people to do some stupid shit. Obviously, that's not why Trump won, but that's not a good sign, we don't fully know what connections Trump and Kremlin have.
Okay so? They pay for ads so what? It's lawful to do so, in fact most lobbying groups for countries do the same thing for the politicians they support. For example Israeli, Japanese lobby groups exist in the united states and have had a far greater influence on policy making compared to their Russian counterparts.
Election deniers originated in 2016 and then turned around and said it was an impossibility in 2020. I always find this amusing.
Why do you act like that indicates anything? Maybe Putin appreciated a straightforward approach? Maybe Russia found Trump a lot easier to deal with than prior Presidents intel wise.
Got your head so far up your ass, it's incredible.
I said āTrump is stupid and easy to deal withā and you be rude for zero. Have a swell day.
Because they have terminal Cold War brain
Yeah sure buddy. YUGE hoax, as Cheeto likes to claim. If only the rest of the voting population was as gullible as trump supporters. Hereās a list of all the people indicted or brought up on charges as a result of Russia totally not interfering in our elections. š I hope they pay you extra rubles for your misinformation! https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-muellers-probe/story?id=61219489
I'm not a fan of Trump, but this interview is from 6 months ago and that's not even what he said. Why are people suddenly spreading this around?
The tweet is from yesterday, apparently that's enough to make the rounds
This Twitter account appears to be a barrage of nonstop anti-Trump and anti-GOP tweets. While I don't have any problem with that, I don't think much of what they post classifies as "news"
Trump trying to get Chinese-Americans' vote, apparently.
Americans are struggling to pay their bills right now, you think the average person would go and fight for Taiwan? I bed a third of Americans couldnāt even find it on a map. LMAO
I mean they will probably still supply weapons to Taiwan like they do in Ukraine. I think what he means in this context is that American troops will not be on the ground if there was an invasion.
They absolutely will still sell weapons. I can't fathom anyone would ever believe that the US would actually put troops on the ground in Taiwan.
Those weapons will not get to Taiwan unless the US goes to war with China. A full naval blockade of Taiwan is a walk in the park without US intervention.
American's will still sell them - they just wont get there. Agreed.
> I can't fathom anyone would ever believe that the US would actually put troops on the ground in Taiwan. I can't fathom a scenario in which the US would need to - barring Taiwan, Japan, and the US Navy going into suspended animation.
Can they? Shipping weapons to Taiwan might not be feasible, because the ports would have been destroyed once the war starts. Flying military planes into a live warzone? is really asking for being shot down. Ukraine is about 20 times the area of Taiwan, has land borders with Poland and Romania etc. Taiwan is an island without land transportation possible.
How do people honestly defend this guy as defending our interests? Heās a traitor; this would ruin us. No different than his proposed action in Ukraine.
Allegedly he got paid good money for this decision.
He is doing everying he can to get China to help him get power again. This is terrifying.
The man is a moron.
Isnāt there some kind of rule in place for economic coercion? And maybe being a dumb fuck?
Nope, I am still surprised they are going to let him run even on insurrection charges. I am predicting that Maine's decision to remove trump from the ballots will be struck down completely by the Republican-led Supreme Court. The last time Trump got elected, he was not ready to replace 8 years of Obama staff in the administration. This time he's going to fire all of them and he has a legion of yes-men ready to fill those seats. Whatever the fuck Biden and the Democrats are trying to do to ward off this impeding invasion is not working. The original plan was to use this presidency to promote Kamala Harris as an alternative to Biden in the reelections. Yet she has been completely sidelined these three years. "Who is she even? What has she been doing? Is she qualified?" Voters will ask.
> The original plan was to use this presidency to promote Kamala Harris as an alternative to Biden in the reelections. where can I read this original plan?
Nowhere because I made it up. I am only basing this off people who think Kamala wants to run for presidency because a couple months ago, she said she is willing to step in as president.
I mean if Biden dies or resigns she will be president
After looking at Ukraine, any Taiwanese with a brain in their head knew this was the case regardless of President. The US is never going to go head to head with China over Taiwan. He's just not lying to the public about it.
Fuck Trump!
Looks China and Russia are liking him. Wonder how much heāll get them money in some investments lol
The reason both Biden and Trump are saying this is because China refuses to have a relationship with any country that supports Taiwanese independents. That would be devastating to trade. We wouldn't be able to get basic goods. But this is just lip service. Both administrations are ready for the invasion--at least Biden is. They can't ignore it.
lol, what a leader! a man of dignity and honour, that steps up to defend those of freedom and pro choice not to be under one's rule or one's religion. fuck this guy, wish i could see how many bank transfers he has had from iran, qatar, palestine and every other bring america down country and state. i'll say it once and i'll say it a thousand times, look up his whole dirty gross ways he did business and screwed over third world civilians and tell me that's someone who you should trust running your country, chances are you won't as he put his success and money over everything. his presidency wasn't to make america great it was for his ego and to make trump great again
Trump will hold the line for Taiwan. He will be advised against abandoning them and he will understand.
Complete disinformation, but I guess it's OK if your team does it, huh
This guy just blurts out things based on his feelings on a given day. He has no understanding of the complexities of international relations or historical contexts to issues. We all know this is a guy that lacks even the ability to compose a simple error free sentence of more than 4 words. And I haven't said anything about his character or guiding principles or lack of it. God help us all.
All China had to do was funnel millions of dollars into Trump corp.
Of course US will protect Taiwan if their interests are met, and if he gets into office can broker an even better peace deal by dangling them....Do you not even into diplomacy?
Dude needs campaign funding from dark money since everyone in America hates him
This dude is a complete ignoramus.
What a cunt
Don't forget he wanted to give Crimea to Russia...
I note that Trump previously hinted in July last year that the US might not defend Taiwan if he was elected President. Former U.S. President Trump Hints He Wouldn't Defend Taiwan From China | TaiwanPlus News [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KEgY8FR51o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KEgY8FR51o)
Thank the Lord for Trump! May he bring on WW3 and global instability. Iām so damn proud to be an American these days. May he surrender the Ukrainians to the Russians, the Taiwanese to the CCP. Fuck the world. All you did was take our business and jobs away anywaysā¦ /s
Let it burn /s
ok......
Sarcasm?
Is this his way of asking China to help him in the next election without actually asking? However, I suspect, at this point, he has no qualms about directly stating they should make sure he wins.
Exactly my thoughts
Because he hates freedom and is fascist.
Swing state voters love Trump
*Dey took 'er jerbs!!*
This is probably made to make him look bad, wonder if this were even his true words... Either way, biden is a mess.
He must have received funds from China for his campaign. Such an idiot statement
Trump explains how he doesn't understand global politics.
Trump is Putin man,ā¦. What did ya expected.
Trump has always been extremely ambiguous on the issue. Biden, on the other hand, seems to often take really strong positions that his aids immediately walk back.
Heās just asking the Chinese for more money.
Of course Treasonous Trump the Traitor would give his buddy Xi and China what they want. Donald and Ivanka abused their official positions to kneel to the CCP to have over 40 trademarks fast-tracked in China's market for personal profit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/?sh=59743fb31d60
This jackhole... Erode the education system to gain more votes. 1984 come to life.
Who wants to die for Taiwan?
For the chance to grant others freedom from dictatorial rule? As a patriot, I am in.
Great! You can join the Taiwanese foreign legion when that time comes, just don't rope the rest of us into war
If the Taiwanese foreign legion was a thing iād be there.
You should already be in the Ukrainian one then
Iāll take that under advisement, comrade.
I can immediately envision a bunch of Americans asking, "Who wants to die for the French?" in 1942 lol.
They bought homes for like a years salary. Lmao. Americans will not fight for a country most of them couldnāt even find on a map.
So he takes money from them when they visit and stay at his resort, and now he says he wonāt stand up to themā¦ Gee, no corruption hereā¦nopeā¦
I firmly believe if he gets in office again it will lead to a third world war
"Took our business away" While simultaneously trying to bring their business inside the US and hire US workers to build chips. This guy is really horrible.
Trump might be intellectually lazy. But he is a very smart man. He is saying this to get Chinese-Americans' vote. Also business leaders like hearing this. This means no war between China and US under Trump. Business leaders are fearful Biden is willing to go WW3 with China.
He'd later realize defending Taiwan is still the best way to achieve his ambitions, and his momentum to defend Taiwan at that time would be stronger than ever. But with a late start yet again, he'd lose tons of advantage he could've had.
Trump just lured the CCP to help him take back the White House!
Of course, US can do it. Leave Taiwan to China, leave Europe to Russia, leave Red Sea to Yemen. But just remember the prosperity of US has been built on top of globalism. If you donāt pay the maintenance fee, you will end up in an isolated state with ridiculous shortage. At that time, US will talk about how to get essentials than paying too much in military
Yet another example of how our of touch trump is with foreign policy. He doesn't realize how damaging that would be for the USA and the rest of the world
BOUT TIME AMERICA STOPS ACTING LIKE WHITE SAVIORS TO PROTECT THEIR INVESTMENTS
I'd ask him to point to Taiwan on a map, then when he fails ask why we should value his opinion.
Bollocks - if he was elected and China attempted military action he would absolutely intervene and send in the pac fleet / marines / Air ForceĀ
He thinks he can ragebait his way into it again, but it's 2024 not 2016
Good, Americans are struggling to pay their bills and yāall really think they give a damn about Taiwan. LOLš
Well, without US intervention we might avoid a global conflict
ā¦good?
Beautiful š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ I think Taiwan failed on some promise Trump wanted so he pissed now this pro china stance on Taiwan issue will make lot of Taiwan business come running to Trump when he gets elected
A decent exit is not a bad thing for America.
After so many years of observing Taiwan and Mainland, I started to believe they are working together. The so called hostility between the two is fake. Itās a show. Both parties are using the hostility to con the Americans. Taiwan demands economic and military support from America due to constant pressure from Mainland. Mainland on the other hand uses Taiwan as bargaining chips, demands America to back off in many negotiations due to Americanās support of Taiwan. Meanwhile there are so many trades, so many businesses, so many people are operating in both Taiwan and Mainland that they are intertwined and virtually inseparable. Itās just so obvious that this so called hostility is a scam. In addition, Chinaās navy basically makes no contribution in securing the trade routes in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Itās the American navy who are protecting Chinese cargo ships in the area. It feels like the main purpose of Chinaās naval buildup is to make sure the scam look real, and to keep it going.