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But we need to onshore the tech before we use you as a bait for our next war with a nuclear power.
semiconductors are probably the only reason why the american empire gives a rat’s ass about taiwan; without them, they would have been annexed by china by now and without american controversy.
The US also cares about the island as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. The reason the US helped Taiwan develop industrially in the first place was for anticommunist cold war reasons.
Which is the correct take from them. Having others dependent on them is a modicum of protection from simply being a pawn for imperialists. They still mostly are, but this provides a little sovereignty.
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