So either become reliant on China or fight a war Chinanwont use nukes over because they won't nuke thier own territory
Quite bluntly, it ain't worth taking that risk. Hence why the option for leaving is there. Relocation is a viable solution.
You leave tiawan to them?
Goodbye to any advanced technology for the next 50 years, maybe 100 years. You killed more people than nukes ever could with that decision.
No. There's not much unique about Taiwan (there is some stuff, seismic stability matters a ton) other than the stuff being there now. It can be rebuilt, and chances are it doesn't survive an invasion, so China gets nothing. Companies are already responding to the increased threat level and building new chip factories outside of Taiwan (Intel's building some in AZ, for example). Taiwanese companies are actually building chip factories in the US.
Look, our current policy of strategic ambiguity is helping keep Taiwan free, averting war, while also not committing us to a war.
And this method of deescalating stakes is the path I'd want to vote to have happen. It's the same reason I care about energy dependence a lot. Yes, energy independence is nice for the economy and all, but more importantly it stops Saudi Arabia grabbing the US by the short and curlies and dragging us by them into atrocities.
I'd vote for someone that I considered a neocon if they could reliably disentangle us from an awful alliance like what we got with the Saudis. I'd see it as advancing anti-warness at least somewhat, though that problem that needs more than just energy independence, but also willingness in state craft to call out their atrocities.
That's why I would vote for Kari Lake: her foreign policy barely matters (she's a governor), but if she keeps AZ attractive as a business climate, more and more chip manufacturers will build stuff there, lessening the cost to the world of a mainland invasion of Taiwan, meaning that the US is less likely to interfere, and less chance of someone dumb pressing the button.
You answer to wumaos. There is a literal Chinese Vichy puppet on the white house right now. You can big man all you want but any training you're doing is just so the Pentagon can enrich itself even more as their greedy friends manage our decline
The white house, as much as I don't like them, is not a Chinese puppet. When Biden fucked up Strategic Ambiguity, he did it in an anti-China way. If anyone, I'd say he's in the Saudi's pocket given what he did with gas prices.
If we fought a war with china the funny button would get pressed and oh no what happened to your large dam, china? Oh, 70% of your population died along with your government? Too bad about that...
And that's why China won't use nukes as well.
If everyone acts rationally, no one presses the button. That's a mighty big if.
As for the midterms, please Trump just stay quiet about running for two more days. Just two freaking days. I don't foresee good stuff for the republicans if he does run in 2024, but I expect he will.