John Kirby: "We don't support Taiwan independence."

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[central_va]

I DO care that we are WAY too dependent on semiconductors and processors made in Taiwan = TARIFF.

[Churchillspirit]

Hope China believes that.

[central_va]

It better to pay $810.00 for a PC made in the USA and have a job then pay $800 for an Asian made PC and be unemployed.

[GingisK]

His type doesn’t support American independence either.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Zathras]

I wonder what Silicon Valley will say about this?
Much of what they do depends on Taiwan.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

That's what US "official policy" sounds like. But if you consider real US behavior, that is a half-truth. especially during the Trump presidency, Biden regime statement last year: “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan's democratically elected representatives .Our commitment to Taiwan is rock-solid. Kirby does not have to sound so obsequious. I don't understand why the Pentagon chose him to be its spokesman. I am not sure the Taiwan Relations Act and "US policy" can both be valid, but they both affect what we do.

[ConservativeInPA]

I must have poorly communicated, or you were triggered by my comment on the CHIPs bill. I am for US manufacturing of all sorts, especially tech. I am dead against corporate welfare. That doesn’t help business. It makes them dependent, just like poor folk welfare. I am not for free trade. I am for fair trade. That means tariffs. I am anti regulation. That means massive shuttering of government. I am for highly selective immigration. That means zero ChiComs coming to the US to get educated and stealing intellectual property. We don’t let our enemies into our gates. We only allow highly productive, highly educated, pro-western civilization, English speaking capitalists to immigrate.

I am pro business, particularly small and medium business via pure competition. I am semi-anti trust to the extent that there are minimal barriers to enter markets for small businesses. That creates competition and innovation. I am for the complete scraping of the tax code. Large businesses lobby Congress for regulations and taxes can be used as a weapon against other businesses, particularly smaller, leaner and more innovative businesses. A flat consumption tax, paid on new goods and services eliminates all of the unproductive labor and costs associated with taxes in addition to big business tax weapons. Just imagine what that means to US business dominance in the world. The US would be the only industrialized nation with zero business taxes. When you combine that low regulations you have a better business environment than any where else.

But that’s not enough. You need educated people to work for those businesses. Government involvement in education needs to be severely curtailed. No more federal involvement in k-12 education and minimal involvement of state governments. All taxpayer dollars for education (local and state, since there would be no federal tax dollars) go to the parents of students. They get to choose where and how to educate their children. No more taxpayer secured education loans. If you don’t have the money for college then you go to a bank. The bank looks at your major and decides if you can pay the loan. There should be zero funding by government (primarily state governments) for diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) degrees, aka “studies” degrees.

That’s not enough, our energy and natural resources policy needs to radically change so we are self sufficient at producing the inputs for manufacturing and our everyday lives. Government has to get out of the business of using tax dollars for green energy and hideous things like ethanol and messing with our food supply.

Lastly, we need to even the playing field and make America safe. We should not subsidize other nations security. We don’t spill our blood for others’ freedom. Every dollar that we spend on other nations security is a dollar that they do not have to spend. It frees other nations to invest in things they cannot otherwise afford. It funds their healthcare, it funds their educations, it funds their businesses. We are subsidizing our competition.

Our focus should be securing our borders and our streets. America needs to be a safe place to live and do business. Only then do we look outward to protect our national interests abroad. But, when we are more self sufficient we have fewer national interests abroad. We should use our natural resources and business dominance as an economic weapon of defense more than rely on military.

To summarize, America has all the things to be the greatest civilization the world has ever known. Institutions like government, education and big business stand in the way. We have the natural resources. We have the people. They just need to be combined and utilized through capitalism and liberty in a natural way to provide the best standard of living for as many Americans as possible. It’s good for us and it provides a model for there rest of the world.

[fuente]

Neither had the Budapest Memorandum on Ukraine security assurances either.

[Olog-hai]

Reagan reversed that, and then Clinton put it back on that track.

[Reno89519]

So, they are an enemy. Print some money or give it as credit to Taiwan or something. They will collapse if we cut off commerce and send everyone home. We can work something out with non-communist replacement.

[Churchillspirit]

Thank you.

I find your response reassuring.

FRegards,