alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1706arrow-down114cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1692arrow-down1external-linkThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comalphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square189fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down1·1 year agoThe US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edward@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·1 year agoisrael and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s not so much that the US needs Taiwan, Ukraine or Israel, it’s that they oppose China, Russian and the middle east.
minus-squarepinkwerdo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoDosen’t the US need Taiwan for silicon manufacturing?
The US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
israel and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.
It’s not so much that the US needs Taiwan, Ukraine or Israel, it’s that they oppose China, Russian and the middle east.
Dosen’t the US need Taiwan for silicon manufacturing?