What's even more amazing is how much stuff the world gets from Taiwan....almost every computer on the planet and the chips for all the autos and other devices...Trump just got caught having the made in China tags removed from all his MAGA gear and replacing it with made in the USA tags....
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...ls-near-taiwan-us-lawmakers-visit-2022-08-15/ Angry China stages more drills near Taiwan as U.S. lawmakers visit
An international think tank did a war scenario between China and Taiwan with the US and said Taiwan wins the war but at great cost...China's navy would be completely destroyed and half the US air force and navy planes would be destroyed to do it. This is why it will never happen beyond saber rattling. China has seen the cost Russia has paid for an invasion of a neighbor
Even Germany has sent warships to the region to keep China in check...China is not going to have an easy time threatening military expansion. They've arrested a woman at a photo shoot over wearing a kimono ....anti Japanese sentiments are growing there as well..Isolationism is going to really hurt China.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wireStory/us-sell-taiwan-anti-tank-system-amid-rising-95919003 US to sell Taiwan anti-tank system amid rising China threat The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of an anti-tank mine-laying system to Taiwan amid the rising military threat from China
My wife just returned after 5 weeks and eveyone in Taiwan assured her China will never invade the island. There's no sense of impending danger there at all amongst the locals. She was worried more before she went to visit family and now feels it's not a pressing issue there anymore than it always has been
It sounds like she had safe travels. Pre covid I had plans to travel to a couple pacific islands. I hope I can do that soon.
