Posted on 03/26/2023 4:01:04 PM PDT by delta7
The United States would destroy Taiwan’s highly sophisticated semiconductor industry rather than allow it to be captured if China ever successfully invaded the island, according to Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor.
“The United States and its allies are never going to let those factories fall into Chinese hands,” Amb. Robert O’Brien told me during a conversation airing today at the Global Security Forum organized by the Soufan Center in Doha, Qatar.
The bulk of the world’s most advanced microchips are produced in Taiwanese facilities owned by TSMC. Gaining control of those plants would make China “like the new OPEC of silicon chips” and allow them to “control the world economy,” O’Brien said…… Still, I was caught off guard by O’Brien’s candor. It occurred to me at that moment that this national security advisor, cleared at the highest level of state secrets, probably knew whether there is some sort of “end TSMC” action plan should the U.S. and allies not stop China from taking control of Taiwan. O’Brien didn’t explicitly say there was such a plan, but when I asked if Taiwan’s chip production facilities would really be “gone,” he said “I can’t imagine they’d be intact.”
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No surprise after they blew the Nordstream pipeline into Germany. The US under Biden is out of control, completely corrupted and bent on destruction.
Just watch them.
It’s a dumber idea to state this publicly.
I wonder what the percentage would be if they thought their alternatives were (1) resist reunification and get their chip plants bombed by Americans in the event a Chinese invasion appeared imminent, or (2) welcome reunification with flowers if offered favorable terms and get to keep their chip plants.
Hmm. This plan to bomb the chip plants, if real, and if seriously believed by both the Chinese and Taiwanese, might actually push the Chinese to offer more favorable terms to Taiwan and for the Taiwanese to accept those terms.
Here’s an interesting piece I just now ran across:
https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/xi-jinpings-37-year-plan-for-taiwan-reunification/
Of course you have to squint through the bias (as you do with nearly everything you read), but has some interesting tidbits.
There’s also a very important strategic reward. Look at a map. They get a giant fortress-like unsinkable battleship in a strategic location for force projection, for one thing.
See also my #20 and link at my #83
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4141060/posts?page=20#20
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4141060/posts?page=83#83
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