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That is both true and coherent.It's a barbarian behavior to invade or to threaten a peaceful and democratic Republic of China on Taiwan.
Let's just condemn it loudly and clearly. Let's leave no ambiguity on it.
That would be important if it was the only communication from US on this subject. It was not. US confirmed on many occasions their single China position.Your ignorance of refutation is tiresome.
I'm sorry you're unable to sufficiently understand and argue grammatical or legal terms, but until you resolve my answer to your first incorrect interpretation to the "well known" The 1979 U.S.–P.R.C. Joint Communiqué, I'm done responding to your misdirections.
Make a grammatical or legal argument to my first answer: “acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China”, in no way equals “acknowledging Taiwan is part of China”
This is a fair point, a key point. The US never behaved this way in the Cold War, and has become more lawless in the post-Cold War. US used to place property rights and due process above all, as bedrock.To be fair, while China might be contemplating seizing something in the future, US is seizing Russian property left and right right now.
Putin invades Ukraine by claiming they share the same Russian origins and cultures, Xi Jing-Ping tells a similar story, but which is wrong in fact.What rhetoric do you have in mind? In the Joint Communiqué, the United States recognized the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China. All but a few marginal states in the world share the same position. That's different from the Russia/Ukraine situation.
"It is not based on your argument, or a misuse of the statement of US document or laws." It's not just one statement. It's a coherent policy. I am not arguing at all whether Taiwan deserves to be an independent state. I really don't qualify for such discussion. I just said that US do not recognize Taiwan as an independent state. There is no ambiguity about it whatsoever. Wikipedia:Putin invades Ukraine by claiming they share the same Russian origins and cultures, Xi Jing-Ping tells a similar story, but which is wrong in fact.
There are several waves of immigrants in Taiwan in the history at least more than 6,000 years, and Taiwan is also a major body of the sources of Austronesian that spread over the Indo-Pacifics islands for the last 4,000 years according to the latest anthropology study.
Taiwan as an independent sovereign state is based on the fact that it has its own people, constitution, laws, government, military, jurisdiction and democracy. It is not based on your argument, or a misuse of the statement of US document or laws.
When you said that by return Taiwan to China and China will own TSMC is simply rediculous.
It is an invasion, a war, that will kill thousands or millions of people's life, destroy TSMC and the supply chain, not only the semiconductor, but also the electronics and everything around Asians waters.
The Communists in China seize people's property, seize enterprises' property, not based on laws or rules, but based on it's own interests. Just looking at the tragedies in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, and the latest black days of those Chinese largest private companies like Alibaba, Tescent, etc. That is the real face of CCP.
I am appreciated very much to read those professional and engineering insights in this forum and would hope continue so.
The reason you get so many disussions about Taiwan here is because Arthur regularly creates new threads on this subject. I am guessing it has something to do with the fact that many members of this forum invest in TSMC so the interest in China-Taiwan situation is not a surprise. And TSMC obviously is a very important semiconductor company. However, I disagree with the argument that TSMC plays a big role in shaping up Chinese Taiwan policy. As I understand, Beijing views unification as a matter of sovereignty and all economic aspects, while important in general, can't change Chinese strategy.
The parallels with Ukrainian situation here are really a stretch. The genesis of the two situations is completely different. There is one potentially common aspect though. In both cases, the two small countries are the subjects of geopolitics between the super powers. And, unfortunately, geopolitics failures too often lead to wars (Vietnam, Iraq, Ukraine etc.). Let's hope Taiwan avoids this scenario.
I think you've just brought it back round to geopolitics again with your final comments !Bringing this back to semiconductors. I espouse the grassroots-populist attitude that you can make America great again if we bring the factory jobs back, maybe strengthen unions, maybe increase pay and respect for factory work. All of this is starting to happen in semiconductors now, and it’s an amazing development, which should be celebrated.
At the same time, China’s and Russia’s desperation seems to be growing, out of the blue (or out of the pandemic perhaps), threatening to upend the progress. I’ve been curious about it, and Peter Zeihan seems to have the explanations: Demographics and deglobalization are working against China and Russia, and within this decade, he claims, these countries won’t matter anymore.