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US approves potential $500m sale of military equipment to Taiwan (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just make sure you sell before the US opens its TSMC plant and drops Taiwan like a hot rock.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still say that Taiwan has two uses that struggle to coexist, manufacturing and military. Once the manufacturing one becomes defunct, what is left is its military use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt there a us senator that tried to start a war in china presicley because she had a lot of intel stock?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

US also nearly started a war with Iran over a fucking pistachios (not solely, but it was a factor)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

United Fruit Company has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That TSMC plant is running into trouble on every front, including the inability to find local workers qualified and willing to work there.

Also the expat Taiwanese engineers are being subjected go racist harassment because of course they are lmao.