How An Attack On Taiwan Could Cause Economic Damage Worldwide

Tensions are rising across Asia as China’s military grows stronger by the day with Xi Jinping expected to hold onto power. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez takes a look inside the frontlines of Taiwan reporting on Xi’s power grab and the relationship between the U.S. and China.

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[abrahamvieyra]

In A World War 3 scenario.
NATO VS RUSSIA
UNITED STATES VS. CHINA
JAPAN/SK VS. NORTH KOREA

[Battle_Beard]

If only we could all agree that the people who live in a region are the ones who should be allowed to decide their own fate.

[ichigobagus]

May Common Sense Prevail ! PEACE NO WAR ! 🙏 🙏 🙏

[bamagrl]

You can't drive without one of these chips, that is something we need to be ready to deal with ASAP.

[allenyung]

It's not a question if. It's when.

[rubylaser]

Taiwan's value is not only TSMC or even semiconductor industry. Taiwan's biggest importance is the geopolitical role in the East Asia and the security implications to the US and its allies in west pacific and Oceania. If China takes Taiwan, PLA's nuclear subs lauched from Taiwan can easily slip into the depth of Pacific Ocean. Difficult to detect, they can run wild to threaten Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Australia, and US west coast.

[sbeast]

Really hoping there won't will be a conflict in that region. The world has enough problems right now.

[KXV]

God, please be with the leaders of the world.

[thdragn]

4:49 No, Taiwan has not been "historically part of China".

Taiwan's recorded history is as follow (ignoring the thousands of years before 1624).
Dutch ruled Taiwan from 1624–1662.
Kingdom of Tungning (independent of China) ruled part of Southwestern Taiwan 1661–1683
1684–1887 Taiwan was ruled as a Prefecture of Fujian Province
1887 become a “province” of China
China ceded Taiwan to Japan 1895–1945
ROC took over the island in 1945 and Chiang Kai-Shek withdrew to Taiwan by 1950 and have been ruled separately from mainland China since then.
To summarize, in the last 400 years Taiwan was a Dutch colony for around 40 years, independent for 20+ years, prefecture of Fujian for 200 years, a province of China for 8 years, Japan for 50 years, and ROC for 75 years.
More importantly, looking at the last 125 years, Taiwan was part of China for only 5 years (when ROC ruled both Taiwan and the mainland). So the assertion that Taiwan is "historically part of China" is simply untrue.

[tommytam]

The price will be too high for China to endure!

[thejedicounciloffical]

0:07 He is doing a nazi salute. That explains a lot.

[Allindays]

"Leader for life"?
You mean a dictator.
lol

[gabemarkarian]

The world has too many evil dictators.

[chun-yuchen]

The free country of Taiwan and the free world stands against the evil ccp everyday

[Brightly]

All wrong !
Only when US come into direct clash with China then the world economy be in trouble.
Look & learn carefully from historical .
If Taiwan island status can be argued by US, then :
Hawaii ?
Guam ?
Whole land of USA (except Alaska) ?

[danzwku]

He got the history of Taiwan wrong lol. Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895 to 1945. Before that the Qing had only some jurisdiction over not even half of the island. The Japanese were the first to fully conquer the island. After that the ROC took over the island in 1945 up until today. The PRC has NEVER governed Taiwan before, and more importantly does not have the consent of the people.

[AndrewKW]

4:43 This is pretty far from accurate as Taiwan is historically an Austronesian island (that the Chinese saw as a primitive backwater island and had no interest in) for thousands of years before the Dutch first colonized it less than 400 years ago. Taiwan and China were only ruled together for about 200 years under the Manchurian Qing dynasty, whose rulers were not even ethnically Chinese, but Manchurian (more an offshoot of Mongolian)

And communist China has never controlled Taiwan for even 1 second, so they can't "take back" what they've never controlled

[ching]

I’m a Taiwanese and thanks for reporting this.
We fought for democracy once, and we’ll keep defending it!

[Hilarto]

Still don't understand why we manufacture our items in china!

[nicoledaniels]

Is there a patent on these micro chips do they have to be made in Taiwan?