Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological excellence with open debate and free exchange.
Subordinating that success to the dictates of an authoritarian system holds no appeal, especially after the unraveling of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” — the very template once marketed to Taiwan. If Beijing wouldn’t keep that promise for Hong Kong, why would it honor it for Taiwan?
Taiwan sits at the center of global semiconductor production. Moving it into Beijing’s orbit would concentrate, not diversify, risk, placing the world’s most advanced chips and manufacturing know-how under the political leverage of an authoritarian state.
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Hexbear was doing their brigade again, trying to try wedges between people.
Hexbear? Whats that?
It’s one of the tankie triad instances.
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Maybe the mods could make the rules clearer because I fail to see how this is relevant for this community. It’s not even a European newspaper
They’re an ally with Europe and have similar values. Europeans want to buy chips from other democracies.
How exactly does Taiwan fit in with buying European?
They produce microchips. Do you want to buy them from china? We need to finally get around producing them ourself
It is easy to do it ourselves. However, it Costs a lot of money, it costs ressources. We have both, but china just lowers the prices of rare earth minerals, and Taiwan the chips, so it is more affordable for companies to buy it from them instead of EU. Then once the factories go bankrupt, they raise the prices again. That is the chinese way on a global economic scale. That is why china is a power house.
it’s not that easy to make cutting edge semiconductors, no.
We really should put the effort on the last part. It’s also easier and cheaper than fighting a war in China.
So abandon another democracy and further prove that the west is full of cowards ready to abandon countries doing the right thing.
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Incredibly selfish and disrespectful. You’re only thinking of yourself. And not only that you’re dead wrong as Taiwan has delivered aid to Ukraine.
They do trade with us and have similar values… you’re missing the point.
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It is our choice to decide whether to protect it.
(I think it is)
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They do have the goal to reunify before 2049 to celebrate a century of the PRC so hardly tomorrow and therefore they could very well decide to use military force.
They’ve used force before and could use it again but even if it’s some referendum that beings about reunification I don’t see how that’s beneficial to the Europe really. Of course by then maybe the stuff they’ve got won’t be as valuable.
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You do realise this is a pro-european community ?
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Oh, you .ml people are a hoot!
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I did not suggest that. I want Taiwan fiercely defended from authoritarian China.
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Pretty sure he was responding to the article, not you.
The article is against trading in Taiwan for any bs…
And sometimes replies are concurrences instead of rebuttals. Think “yes, and” instead of “no, but”.
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China has no right to annex other countries.
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