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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2024
- If China were to invade Taiwan-an island democracy in the South China Sea-would it be in America’s national interest to defend it? China scholar Helen Raleigh weighs in on this critically important question.
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Is it in America’s national interest to defend Taiwan, an island less than 100 miles off the eastern coast of China?
Every American President of the last seventy-five years has had to face this question.
Each one has responded in a slightly different way. But the bottom-line answer they have all given is…
Maybe..
Fortunately, this ambiguous commitment has never been put to the ultimate test.
But that test might not be far off.
The Chinese Communist Party - the CCP - believes that Taiwan belongs to them and has made it very clear that it intends to take control of the island.
The Taiwanese, however, hold a different opinion. They want to determine their own destiny.
Economically, they’ve done fine on their own. Despite a population of only 23 million people, Taiwan is now one of the world’s leading economies. With a strong industrial base, it is home to the world’s most advanced maker of computer chips, Taiwan Semiconductor. Apple, Lockheed, and Google are clients.
It’s also a well-functioning democracy.
China, which isn’t a democracy, doesn’t care.
It wants Taiwan.
Does it have a legitimate claim?
If we look at the island’s history, it’s hard to make a great case that it does.
From time immemorial the island was inhabited by indigenous people. Beginning in the 16th century, the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish each established a small colonial presence. So taken with the island’s natural beauty, the Portuguese called it “Ilha Formosa,” or “beautiful island.”
In 1683, the armies of the Qing Empire, the ruling Chinese dynasty at the time, conquered the island. But they didn’t do much with it. Life went on as it always had.
Then in 1895, Japan colonized Taiwan after defeating China in a bitter war.
On the mainland, the Nationalist Party overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China (the ROC) in 1911.
The ROC government took over control of Taiwan in 1945 after the Allies defeated Japan in World War II. Almost immediately, a brutal civil war broke out between the ROC, led by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong. By 1949, Mao had prevailed and established the People’s Republic of China. Chiang and the remainder of the ROC government, along with two million followers, fled to Taiwan.
From that moment on, the two sides traveled along opposite paths.
Taiwan was firmly settled in the American camp. China was firmly settled in the Soviet camp.
It’s not that Taiwan was a model of democracy - Chiang was a dictator until his death in 1975. But he was a valuable asset to the United States during the Cold War. With a large standing army at his command, Chiang exerted a restraining influence on Mao.
In exchange for this, the United States continued to recognize the ROC as the official representative of the Chinese people. But this was unsustainable. Communist China was a nation with close to a billion people, one-fifth of the world’s population.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were the first to accept this reality. As a gesture to Mao, they kicked Taiwan out of the UN Security Council and gave its seat to Communist China. In 1972, Nixon and Kissinger made their historic trip to China.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter granted Communist China full diplomatic recognition.
As a counterbalance - call it a consolation prize - the US Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act. Although the Act didn’t guarantee that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion by Communist China, it did not rule out US intervention, either.
To Taiwan’s credit, it didn’t let these diplomatic setbacks stop its march to democracy. After Chiang’s death in 1975, his successors gradually implemented political and economic reforms.
The economy boomed. It’s still booming.
None of this matters to the Chinese Communist Party.
If the US were to lose access to Taiwan’s technology, the economic consequences would be catastrophic. Made-in-Taiwan chips power everything from smartphones to missiles.
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The World's problems stem from a few " Scoundrels " while the vast majority of innocent people want to live in Peace.
well if ccp gets it, no more computer parts, unless ccp decides to sell. like they can hold back medicines and other crap you let them control. traitors gave them power and production for their global communism
Trump hates Taiwan
No people elect those leaders peoples are not innocent
PragerU = Trump's International cult.
I really enjoy finding "Made in Taiwan" labels on items when I shopping 😊 !
Once in a rare while, it is not "made in China"
When I was a kid, they were wayyy more common. Hopefully they make a comeback.
not like theres an ethical difference
There is so an ethical difference, buying products made in China supports Communism, while made in Taiwan supports Democracy !@@redpilledfrogue
Same here! @@BuddyLee23
Don't let China do to Taiwan what it did to Hong Kong! - A person who has family in Hong Kong and who deeply values true democracy
What is a true Democracy? It does not exist in the USA.
How is Hong Kong doing?
It’s none of our business
@@NB-yu4lj exactly. If they love freedom and democracy so much, then they should fight for it...with their own money.
As a Hongkonger, I hold a total opposite view. Thanks to national security act and Arcticle 21, Hong Kong riots in 2014 and 2019 will never happen again.
My boy is a missionary in Taiwan. God bless them, they have been so good to him.
The Mainland was blessed with winning the war and has more visitors.
Strategic reasons.
Close to one of world's key shipping routes
Taiwan produces over 60% of the world’s semiconductors and over 90% of the most advanced ones.
Taiwan is like the Sudetenland/Czechoslovakia in 1938/39 if we don't draw a line there where to we draw it?, Guam?, Hawaii?
Moral reasons.
Do we stand aside and watch millions of people sent to "reeducation camps" or otherwise "disappeared?' Didn't the world say never again in 1945 after the Holocaust in? Uyghur Lives Matter, Free Taiwan, Free Hong Kong, Free Tibet.
Did the US draw a hard line with Ukraine and Russia? No right?
@@dynastywarriorlord07 No, the US didn't.
But on the other hand, the US has done so in the case of Taiwan. President Biden has done so on 3 or 4 occasions, and President Bush did so once.
And free the North Koreans!
Yea, the question is how many body bags of young Whit-e men does the US gov want to send back to their mothers? At the end of the day, if we can't hold Afghanistan and we can't hold Ukraine, we can't hold Taiwan.
@@MrTmax74 Free them from what? American imperialism?
The Chinese Civil war didn't break out in 1945. It started in 1927, was paused when the Japanese invaded in 1937, then resumed after the Japanese were defeated.
Also the Nationalists started the war and fled to Taiwan after the communists defeated them.
Prager leaves that out... for whatever reason.
Unlike Ukr, Taiwan has massive strategic value as the most advanced manufacturer of semiconductor chips in the world. Our military and civilian sectors are absolutely dependent on Taiwan’s semiconductors.
PLUS. They aren't Communist.
A facility in Arizona is being built precisely to not be dependant on this.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 We need to get more domestic manufacturing going. Being dependent on external sources for critical components is a huge vulnerability.
@@paule4566 it's being done. This "we must defend Taiwan cuz muh semiconductors" is an excuse with a very close expiry date
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Consider not just what we get for defending Taiwan, but what the PRC gets if we don't.
The US starting WW3 over a Chinese territorial dispute does not seem like a good idea.
Hear hear.
it is in America's interest to make and / or create better computer chips then Taiwan
As a Taiwanese
We will defend our country with allies including USA
Totally agree! I am a Taiwanese too!
Stop being a trouble maker.
@@byroneveson say this to CHINA
I saw a poll last year that only 30% of the Taiwanese are willing to fight against China is they invade. Is that true?
@@rogerwang1474 ah yes, let me guess ABC who feels he has to compensate in order to fit in?😆
Kissinger is to blame for all that we are facing with China today.
I agree. It's just find it awful that he lived up to a hundred.
Agreed, troglodytes always have disdain for those people.
Kissinger endangered USA and free world, by openning up China.
USA should instead helped small countries surrounding China.
Just an FYI, Kissinger is laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery
Section 21, Grave 76-A
Would be a shame if someone peed all over it.
Kissinger got the last laugh by living a long life.... What a pee brain does at this point is irrelevant... Just an FYI
Why am I seeing comments from two days ago when this just premiered 21 minutes ago?
It's called bots. You can post it unlisted get comments then open it publicly. Atleast that how it used to work. Mostly it is used to farm comments that a line with your views. It's a liberal and neo con why of inflating something that is unpopular.
Usually it is released only for members initially and then to regular subscribers
CCP cyber invaders! 😁
Proof that time travel has been invented.
A defeated Taiwan also gives the Chinese navy access to Deep waters in that area.
🤡
The Chinese navy already has among the world's largest warships sailing through deep waters and you're not doing anything about it.
as an american in china i say no, it's a chinese issue. the US jumping in militarily would be a declaration of war on behalf of the US and china would be right to fire back. bases in korea, japan, guam, and stateside would be at risk of attack and so would population centers. everyone needs to step back and let china and taiwan has things out without outside interference. the world has had enough bloodshed
Learn your history people! Learn about the origins of the Chinese Communist Party. Learn about China's influence over North Korea.
Trump hates Taiwan
You should learn more history. The CPC had a later origin yet still won over more people. Even the guy who started the KMT ended up liking it.
@@tritium1998 are you on drugs? CPC? LOL!
@@tritium1998 CCP has to worry about defending their forsaken history. Get over it already. Stop being the problem.
Wow. The fifty cent army came here early and en masse.
The Wumao are always online.
Lmaooo what are you guys on about? Care to explain and educate me on the Fifty cent Wumao army?
Putin BOT ie supposed "American taxpayer"populist BS.
America is founded on defending freedom with far more than money.
American taxpayers: we don't want to give our hard earn money to defend the borders of foreign nations when our own is wide open.
Neo-con warhawks: you are fifty cent army.
Putin BOT ie supposed "American taxpayer"populist BS.
America is founded on defending freedom, with far more than money.
PRAGERU!!!!!
True!
Thank you for making this video.
Trump hates Taiwan
The better question should be “how should we preserve long lasting peace between China and Taiwan?”, kinda sick of US going to war all over the world with no clear goals or even results
Kinda sick of China aggressively expanding and taking over territories that want nothing to do with the CCP.
If Xi really considers himself the next Mao, we may not have a choice in the matter.
Then you'd better go have a word to Xi Jinping, because the ball is in his court. The US would be acting in a purely reactionary role.
It's also the CCP which is constantly threatening Taiwan, too.
Peace through strength
@@user-cz8gi2om3n Strength doesn't mean constantly going into someone else's backyard to swing your war dong around.
American soldiers sign up to defend the US, not some foreign country.
BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD JESUS CHRIST WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD praise God praying for everyone everyday God bless you all
Shouldn’t the U.S. just mind its own business?
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Yes, Taiwan should be protected 🇹🇼🙏🇺🇸 They're our ally.
🇰🇷 must help 🇰🇷
No. The US was founded to not get involved in foreign sabre rattling
President George Washington said no long term allies!
Americans before WW2 wanted no foreign entanglements.
I stand with President Washington.
Taiwan is not a signatory ally of the US. There is no treaty of mutual defense. That is why the Taiwan Relations Act was created: to recognize a conundrum. "Maybe" has worked as well as a treaty to keep China from taking Taiwan so far, but theUS is no longer able to confidently envision a victory if it comes to arms.
@@Tyi276 Mao Tse-tung said that Taiwan should be independent in the 1930s.
The CCP before WW2 wanted Taiwan independence.
Yes.
America should Defend America. Soon
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Excelent video on Taiwan.
The Chinese Civil War was already happening before WWII, it was paused when the Japanese invaded and resumed after WWII ended. The Civil War didn't break out after WWII
The CCP NEVER RULED TAIWAN. 🇹🇼 not to mention, most young Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese exclusively and NOT Chinese in any way.
Chinese were traditionally terrible navigators.
They were not able to conquor Taiwan until Ming Dynasty.
and Taiwan is very close to China.
China never once mounted invasion against Japan in their 5000 years.
that's right, but isn't that the outcome of the Taiwan's public education?
Look at your passport. It says "China" right there.
"as Taiwanese exclusively and NOT Chinese in any way"
So what history and language do they have in your wishful hallucinations? You probably cry about the Mainland's Cultural Revolution despite your story being what you really wish too.
The Republican Party didn't rule the Southern states but still regained them under Washington.
@@davidjacobs8558 By your dumb logic, all your other defeated empires like Rome were traditionally terrible for not conquering all their neighboring regions forever.
This sounds like what was said at the start of Ukraine and half of the major wars of the last half century.
We have NO strategic interest in Ukraine. Ukraine is a kleptocracy. It doesn't produce squat except cr00k$ and mercenaries.
Ukraine has not been much of a friend of US or a great value in trade with US. We are not talking about the same thing at all. If Ukraine falls, it’s just another corrupt country that failed. If Taiwan falls, EVERYTHING with a chip in it that you love (your phone, computer, tablet, even cars), belongs to China. We should as a country prioritize high value friends and allies such as Taiwan, not low value ones like Ukraine.
Yes
Oh Nixon
Blame Kissinger. Nixon went for Strategic reasons not business deals.
1.1969, Soviet Union reached Nuclear Parity with the United States.
2. Ho chi Minh died in 1969, then North Vietnam Government moved closer to the Soviet orbit.
3. Russia and China were at War in 1969.
America needs to FIRST defend America. Put the oxygen mask on ourself before we attempt to help anyone else.
Yeah, because the US is incapable of doing more than one thing at a time and doesn't have the single most powerful military force on the entire planet, funded by money greater than the GDP of several whole nations...
Yep. The US is that inept. Totally. Utterly incapable of doing anything.
You are also right, every country needs to be improved in their own programs.
Not to interfere everyone any time.
If China or Russia invade Panama, is that okay? Then they move north and invade Mexico, is that okay?
All kinds of invasion are not ok if they do not have reasons.
Btw, the previous comment is about a country defending itself without intervention, no invasions.
These are things that can happen at the same time. America is very well protected. No one is even thinking about trying to invade the US. There's not one military or even several combined ones that could come close to successfully invading the US.
No we shouldn’t, everyone wants there own country but can’t protect themselves.
I think America should start protecting America.
That job is being done by armed American Citizens. Without us well armed People, the Mexican drug cartels would take over all the border states, and Obiden would surrender during the 1st hour.
Like the lady says, that will be difficult without Taiwanese tech, and an emboldened China might come after us later.
@@TBustahChina isn't capable of invading the US. In fact it's on the decline due to it's demographic collapse which is inevitable.
So you're saying that taiwan will no longer give us supplies because we don't defend them?
They should defend themselves as we should defend ourselves.
Yes, and the US will possibly lose their South East Asian allies if they don't defend Taiwan, since if Taiwan falls due to the US not doing anything about it, the SEA countries will scramble to find new allies, possibly Russia since they are the closest, and will then snub the US for several generations on trade, etc. People are not naive and know that allies are allies mainly because they can gain something from the relationship. America protecting their allies is at bottom America protecting America.
Ah yes we have to defend Taiwan from China, because we definetly don't currently occupy the country, lol.
I would like to thank Taiwan for making my overpriced Asus gaming laptop... 😊
And Taiwan is China. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have said Taiwan is China. They do not support Taiwan
Ukraine, Israel and Now Taiwan.
What's next? Is only America going to suffer?
Why doesn't they appeal to another countries?
It should be “Should American Defend Free China?” Also to that; Before the Qing took Taiwan, Taiwan was under the control of a Ming retainer named Cheng Kung or Koxinga by many. Indeed Taiwan is the last bastion of Chinese Democracy which Beijing feared most and a part of China, which is the Republic of China.
Absolutely
Should Russia defend Texas?
@@yt1536Should the world police protect the most strategically vulnerable country in the world, threatened by the biggest and most powerful dictatorship? Yes.
Absolutely not
@@yt1536 From the PRC? Sure.
@@yt1536Silly question
Taiwan’s already moving some factories stateside (including a big one coming here to Phoenix) in anticipation of invasion, but we still shouldn’t let it come to that. Hopefully things will get better once the illegitimate occupiers of the White House have been evicted.
Why would it get better for you when you support its separatism?
My take on it:
We should back ROC (Taiwan). Fall of Taiwan makes the goal of free and open Indo-Pacific sent to the trashbin. It would also make the CCP more easier to bully us since the fall of Taiwan constitutes a breach on the 1st island chain. The fall of Taiwan makes Japan and South Korea more easier to be targeted by the CCP. Taiwan has the TSMC which drives modern technology through its semiconductors. Also, Taiwan is a fellow democracy despite it only became a democracy at the 90s. And Taiwan is the last bastion of Chinese democracy that what Sun-Yat-Sen wanted but never have the opportunity to be achieved in the mainland. We can learn a lot from Taiwan.
Thats All
Edit:
Outside of world politics, it's a simple issue actually
A free country with objectively happy citizens is being threatened by a bigger country whose its citizens is less well off, with the motivation seemingly to exploit the former. Should anybody defend them? You answer this.
If we need to somehow defend Palestine, Ukraine, and Israel, this is 100x more defend-worthy.
The biggest question is, are they paying for us to protect them?
Taiwan is not like Nato. Check Taiwan Relations Act in 1979 and National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA 2003.
They make all of our computer chips bud. They pay for it and then some
@@thatdude4257 Why don't they make our computer chips on our soil then? That way we get the benefit and don't have to fight a world war for it.
Taiwan needs to keep the technology to protect themselves. Yes. TSMC is opening up a factory in Arizona. @@Letsplay222
@@Letsplay222 "Why don't they make our computer chips on our soil then? That way we get the benefit..."
Yes, America would certainly benefit if Taiwan moved all its chip factories to the US.
But how would that benefit Taiwan?
President George Washington said no long term allies!
Americans before WW2 wanted no foreign entanglements.
I stand with President Washington.
We cant even defend our own fking borders!! FJB!
Don't worry, after the 2024 election, the dems will close the borders. More than likely, they will close just about everything.
U guys can, you just chose not to by voting him
It’s not that we can’t. It’s that a senile communist puppet refuses to enforce the law.
Not everyone is so sure he was legitimately voted in, but he is certainly the weak president we deserve 😞
what a sight to see -- so many dislikes, yet so many comments voicing support for the video's stance
Jesus Christ said in this world you will have trouble but take heart I have overcome the world praise God praying for everyone everyday God bless you all.....
I think you did it, you stopped all wars
@@Jaquavion36he said he was praying for everyone. I don't think you understand his perspective.
Jesus wasn’t real.
@@raito1239 ... He said with godlike certitude.
@@spellbindery1 prove god is real and not just any god your specific Christian god, I’ll wait.
I hope u Taiwanese r maintaining a strong defense...
They have been for over 70 years. Unlike the Ukraine situation, Taiwan has never been part of PRC China have been at a standoff with each other for many decades.
1:29 Well actually Portuguese never ruled Taiwan.
The way we all did not understood the dark truth about Ukraine until it happened the same way we will not know the dark truth about Taiwan until it happens.
Really, would america want china that close to them
Ike in Cuba , how many countries have the so called freedom countries invade r currently accupy it is not about freedom but more america keeping it's place as the top dog , freedom arguments is more catchy
@user-mz8wp2gh5m you're right to an extent. However, in regards to the CCP it is the enemy of not only the rest of the world, but to it's own people.
No
It is important, but are we strong enough. Because right now, not so much. We've been weakening for a long time and have a puppet king at present.
Puppet King = Biden
An illegitimately elected president
The better question is if China is strong enough.
Taiwan by itself has a fantastic mulitaryb
@@andrewrogers3067 That's an interesting concept. I'd never thought much about taiwan's military. I know Israel would be fine if we left it by itself and stopped punishing it for defending itself. So who knows?
@@andrewrogers3067 No it doesn't. It's not even declaring independence and starting a war despite begging for your military aid too. Does China fear your strength since it's still not obeying you?
Roland Reagan approves of this 👍
Finally a sensible neoconservative take in an increasingly isolationist time.
US hegemony is a benefit to everyone around the world and itself!
Yea
Should Russia defend Hawaii?
@@yt1536
Hawaii is a U.S state... so i mean... if it got invaded that'd be pretty cool of them and probably buidl up relations between us and Russia... but I dont see why they should HAVE to
@@spiffygonzales5160
Taiwan is a renegade province of China.
If the US can interfere in China's provincial affairs, why can't other country/countries do the same to state/states of the US?
@@yt1536
A renegade province?
Bruh they've been operating on their own for a hundred years. They're a country. "Renegade province"... friggin lol.
@@spiffygonzales5160
So, how come the USA doesn't have the balls to give the Taiwan "country" diplomatic recognition?
I’m not sure where the makers of this video got the idea that “taiwans economy is still booming. “ It isnt.
I bet you never tell native Americans something like that "BEGINNIN in 16th century when Europen.."
summary: 1 the potential Taiwan war is an extention of the Chinese civil war from 1945.
2 defending Taiwan is in the interest of the US.
Overall, as an American, I am for the US providing financial and military support for Ukraine and (if needed) Taiwan, but I do wonder sometimes, if the roles were reversed, and some terrible tragedy were to occur in the US that would greatly diminish the US's financial and military strength and it was the US that desperately needed financial and military assistance, how many of these nations who love to talk about how great of allies and friends they are to the US, would be such great allies and friends when they are the nations being asked to bend over backwards to help America with billions of dollars in aid packages and asked to risk 10's of thousands of their citizens' lives to fight for the US against some nation that would attack the US? Great Britain came to the US's aid pretty well after 9/11 due to Tony Blair but at the same time, that same support cost Tony Blair quite a bit of political power so maybe it was more Blair than the nation the US should be thankful for? I sometimes think the friendship so many nations show the US is conditional upon what financial and military protection the US can provide those allies.
The nation I question the most is Israel due to their disgusting and treacherous behavior during the Jonathan Pollard treason incident back in the 80's. For those who don't know, Jonathan Pollard was a Jewish American who stole military secrets and provided them to an Israeli military officer (Aviem Sella) who acted as Pollard's handler. When Israel discovered this, instead of being such a great friend and ally to the US and immediately informing the US Ambassador to Israel, the US Sec of State and right up to the President of the US of this espionage, they ordered Aviem Sella to direct Pollard to obtain more military secrets. When Pollard messed up and got caught, our wonderful friend and ally LIED to the US saying they had no knowledge of the espionage and when US diplomats went to Israel to investigate, the Israeli's acted like pure A holes to the US diplomats and did everything they could to continue the lie and disrupt the investigation. When the US discovered Israel's treachery, the US unfortunately did not have the guts to discontinue all aid to Israel. I would have required the Israeli Prime Minister and the cabinet member(s) involved with foreign affairs and defense to come to Washington DC and ask the president and congress for forgiveness and how convincing they are of contrition for their treachery would determine if congress and the president return to giving financial aid to Israel. I know Dennis Prager would be pissed reading this but nothing I wrote is not public knowledge. Look it up on Wikipedia. Wouldn't surprise me if this comment gets deleted in the next hour or so.
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The thing is... Chang was our ally during WWII, but when Mao and he fought, we dropped him in it. The United States isn't a reliable ally. Depending on the agenda of the current administration in power, we'll cut and run. This is what Taiwan has to look forward to with a Democratic administration; I trust it would be less dishonorable with a Republican one, but Nixon was a Republican (and Kissinger was a wolf in sheep's clothing--may he rest ill-at-ease).
"Chang was our ally during WWII, but when Mao and he fought, we dropped him in it."
President Truman did so because large sums of American aid were stolen by the corrupt KMT. (Although I don't know that President Chiang himself was personally corrupt.)
An unreliable ally is one who steals from you. Fortunately, times have changed, and Taiwan is now one of the least corrupt countries on earth (#28 out of 180 on the Corruption Perceptions Index).
taiwan is of US interest since it forms the first islands chain of defense for US, which includes Japan, Philippines and South Korea. Without this, Chinese navy can roam around the Pacific and pose a great threat to the US west coast. Current US territories cant cover the Pacific.
Do the Taiwanese people have the will to fight to protect their own homeland? If not, then any protection or aid from the US is a lost cause.
yeah dude lets just let the 23m people fight the 1.4b what could go wrong as long as they have the will to fight
Us Asians are far more patriotic than you Americans
@@himacho8771 Population is a poor proxy for combat effectiveness. Tawain's defense-in-depth strategy has worked brilliantly for decades, but now PRC's air force and navy are more capable and can easily blockade Formosa. A few hundred years ago, a scrappy nation of persecuted outcasts took on the world's mightiest military because they valued freedom more than their lives. I doubt that willpower exists any more in America, though we see vestiges from time to time. Does it exist elsewhere? Or must America's sons and daughters bleed and die in another proxy war for a people who would prefer to capitulate? It is not an idle question.
@@CheaperEngineer You do know that America won the revolutionary war with the help of multiple european countries right?
America MUST defend Taiwan.
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I don't think this video really answered the question. It also only gave "maybe" answers.
Ja Ja if they´re going to do it the same way as with Israel ....I think Taiwan is better off by itself.
AMAZING VIDEO!
The defense f Taiwan is in the interests of all of humanity.
You obviously don't own all of humanity agreeing with you about Taiwan.
I see the Chinese bots have already found this video.
I don't know the situation about the semi-conductor industry things, it seems they trying to move out of Taiwan to avoid involving the war. That's not good news.
They should, but they won’t.
It is indeed true as no attention unless topic brought with CCP.
I believe Taiwan should prepare for protecting herself.
Hells yeah!!!! We need them dam computer chips
Sorry, I feel for Taiwan’s struggle, but many Americans don’t want our sons dying for a foreign war… again.
Except that they manufacture the chips which power our economy. We can’t let China control that.
I agree, let the leaders of the nation lead in battle first if its in their supposed "National interest" lets put people before resources.
Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has something critically important to offer the world. If the CCP take control of the island then TSMC (the largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry on the planet) comes under CCP control.
You cannot let CCP gain control of the manufacturer of the vast majority of CPUs that go into PCs, laptops, phones, tablets, servers, telecommunications and weapons systems. It puts every single nation at risk as every nation has infrastructure powered by processors created at TSMCs facilities.
what Taiwan has you can make anywhere and other countries ahve it too, funny is that Ukraine actually has value, natural resources can't be made just because you feel like it, that's why Russia invaded it and China doesn't invade Taiwan, why conquer an island when you can build your own chips (which they are doing already).
There's so many pro-war / pro intervention comments here all based around the stupid "semiconductors" argument. It's highly sus.....
@@Real_SkyRipper TSMC has close to 30 foundries in Taiwan. Do you know how long it would take and how much it would cost to reconstruct the same amount of foundries that are present on Taiwan to meet the global demand elsewhere in the world? You're talking tens of years and hundreds of billions. Not to mention sourcing the expertise required to operate these foundries.
China can't compete with Taiwan because they don't have the knowledge or experience in chemistry and physics to be able to build working transistors at bleeding edge node sizes. That's why their home grown efforts to create chips that try to compete with the likes of Intel, AMD, Nvidia etc are always slower and less power efficient.
@@yourma2000 it would cost $446.1 billion, that's little for a big country, also China chips are almost as good as the ones made in Taiwan, and China has to fight sanctions to do them, so you are wrong in what you said, if the need arise you will see other countries doing it.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Do you remember the chip shortage a couple of years ago? Imagine no chips at all.
There are many economic reasons to defend Taiwan, and perhaps even more humanitarian ones. However, defending against imperialist aggression is increasingly important the stronger the aggressor is. Because of this, China must not be allowed to expand any further than it already has (Tibet and NW China which is actually non-Chinese muslim lands that are being scattered). Global commerce is incredibly strong in this area and would be largely cut off by China taking over Taiwan. Furthermore, Phillipine and Japanese islands extend close to Taiwan and would almost certainly be taken (the closest ones) in the hostile takeover. China would further restrict the Phillipines and Japanese sailing commerce. These are almost certain things to happen if Taiwan falls. There isn't a great natural stop point for China. Meanwhile, the CCP has already shown themselves to be monsters in Hong Kong despite assurances to the contrary when they took over. How much more would this be true in Taiwan? Hopefully there is no takeover attempt. If there is, hopefully India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and the Phillipines all join the US in Taiwanese assistance. I'd mention Europe also (as they have strong economic reasons the same as us) but they are already behind in defending themselves.
I have friends and family in the military and they took an oath to defend the US and some foreign country.
No .. Taiwan has no oil 😂😂 ..
The US will defend Taiwan in the same way as Ukraine and Israel. By providing weapons and equipment for it to defend itself with while also hitting China with sanctions in an attempt to cripple its economy. I doubt there will be any direct conflict
The way we should approach the issue of Taiwan (and China) needs to take in to account all scenarios. If we help Taiwan defend itself, it will cost us blood and treasure. On the other hand, if we let Taiwan fend for themselves, Taiwan will still survive albeit with a lot of cost but that will embolden our adversaries and discourage our allies. The final count of this last scenario would be many times higher than if we help Taiwan straight up. Another thing, the UN resolution 2758 deals with only ROC's seat in the Security Council, but never mentioned anything about Taiwan, which remains a separate country from China as far as UN is concerned.
🇺🇸 should defend 🇹🇼 & 🇺🇦
Yes, but not without other countries pull their load. NATO will have to hold their own.
If anyone's interested, there's a British band called UNIT that released a whole album inspired by and dedicated to Prageru, TPUSA and The Daily Wire. I discovered their You Tube channel a couple of years ago and most of their stuff is excellent. I'm not an agent for the band nor do I know any of them but, to judge from their lyrics, they seem genuine. I found them by typing UNIT Andy Martin The Voice Of Reason into YT which did the trick. They have the entire album as a playlist. One of their tracks features the mighty Ben Shapiro, a couple of later pieces feature Matt Walsh and they do a cracking version of Columbia Gem Of The Ocean, too! PS No, I am not the singer’s dad nor am I their manager or related in any way to the group!
The opposite must be happened, the legal government is in Taiwan.
If a union ever materiliazed must start by free election in PRC....
Democracy is dictatorship, ilha is pronounced ilya.
We need to avoid conflict if possible with China, and I know Taiwan feels this way also. That said we must honor our promises.
0:24 No, lol; Taiwan believes the reverse; they want to retake the mainland. I still support Taiwan, though.
Yes, America should defend Taiwan 🇹🇼
I'm sympathetic to their cause, but this isnt our fight......
It is, actually. It would destroy the global economy if Taiwan was captured. Unlike China, Taiwan doesn't just make cheap crap that goes up on Amazon or whatever, they make 90% of the worlds advanced chips. That means no more phones, computers, cars, anything.
Taiwan is a free independent country
Nope, the fact is 180 countries including the US support the One China Policy, meaning Taiwan's "Independence" is only done on paper. Independence has never been possible for Taiwan. One day it'll be reunited with Mainland China.
So was Hawaii and Puerto Rico before the US invaded them.
This video purposely ignores the point that the Chinese have been massively migrating to Taiwan for agricultural production and settlement and reproduction since the 16th century and even earlier (of course the aborigines were even earlier), and then the Chinese general Zheng He expelled the Dutch who were occupying Taiwan at the time, and set up a local regime here loyal to China's Ming government, and then lost a civil war against the Qing dynasty, which brought Taiwan and the mainland under the united Qing government. The Qing government had Taiwan reclaimed to promote commerce and industry, and after China lost a naval battle with France, the Qing government recognized the importance of Taiwan and separated it from part of Fujian province to create a separate province, but lost the ensuing Sino-Japanese War and was forced to cede the island to Japan.
Who pays?
US can not afford to lose TSMC to China
It's ridiculous we haven't brought some taiwan chip specialists to make them here so that way it reduces the likeliness china will want taiwan because if they can't monopolize the chips taking it loses a metric ton of value.
Even without the semiconductor industry, China still wants Taiwan
@@DamslettesSIMP I'm sure but that still would take away massive incentives to risk war over it
@@Ript3r this topic hugely involves geopolitics, let me remind you that 1/3rd of the global trades goes through SCS/WPS
China will find an excuse to take Taiwan. We should not cripple Taiwan's economy just to make it look "undesirable". That's not how you work with dictators/terrorists. You tell the terrorists that no they can't touch a free country just because you want it. Russia can't touch Ukraine just because they want it. Iran can't touch Israel just because it wants it. People forgot what boundaries mean.
@@zeldalipschutz8637 Competition doesn't cripple anything. It's beneficial to the entire world if others can make chips too. And it doesn't stop anyone from helping Taiwan either it is just something to reduce their desire for it potentially
We must respect the will of the people of Taiwan. ...sure. But why is not that the case also when it comes to Russians that lives in Eastern Ukraine and voted in a democratic way to join with their motherland Russia ? After they had been attacked by the Ukrainian state for many years. Was not all that a democratic way that we should also have respected and supported ? And why is there no condemnation for the Ukrainian state for what they did to the peoples in the east ?
We can't even defend ourselves. We need to stop being the world police.
u can, u guys also hugely benefit from it
Yes china is not our enemy. Wall street is.
USA should let Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have their own Nooks.
Why is USA forbiding them from getting Nooks ?
So sad that America gave away all of the might and wealth of our Silicon Valley and now has to worry about an island next to China. If only we had a robust economy that encouraged businesses to come here.
You realize that taiwanese that built the semiconductor industry in taiwan were all americans. They tried to climb the corporate ladder in america but were block from promotions. So when Taiwan said you can be the boss we'll bank roll you, they left america and rebuilt it in taiwan.
Definitely!
It's only the strategic location that makes Taiwan important, the semiconductor production is interesting but not really a good reason. The Taiwanese people should start taking their defense more seriously. The last elections were about economics, rent prices, and cost of living. They don't seem to grasp the situation.
I think they spend at least 3% of their GDP on defence, which is more than most European countries.