The Real Reason China Wants Taiwan

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins Tucker Carlson to share his thoughts on the conflict between China and Taiwan.

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[fys]

We absolutely need more people to see this.

[clintcarter]

How do you not like this guy. Didn’t think there would be anyone close to Trump to better the USA but here we are. Coming from a 🇨🇦

[sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl]

I don't care if China wants Taiwan.
I. Don't. Care.
Secure the southern border.

[DavidMorales-uj]

Vivek’s plan makes lots of sense.. I can tell he really care about helping America and prevent a major conflict in the future

[Bob-wbj]

The fact that Vivek just talks about his plans as being based off of the most simple, common sense and objective ideas is why I like him I think. In a world where Democrats rule by fear and our most base human emotions, we need the opposite, which is common sense policy dictated by reality

[thomasrogers]

China can now domestically produce 7nm and 5nm advances chips. china has had a breakthrough in the worlds first SUPER CHIP CALLED MEMORISTA. IN 2 YEARS OR LESS CHINA MAY NOT EVEN NEED 1 OR 2NM CHIPS. They do no need advances chips from taiwan to take the semiconductor lead. They are leading in 6 g already. Vivek needs to do his homework.

[Peacenutman]

The "complicated" history that Vivek is refering to UN resolution 2758 of October 1971 of VAST majority of western nations (except US and Australia) voted in favor of Communists Party in Beijing (winner of civil war) instead of Nationalist Party in Taipei (loser of civil war) as the legitimate ruler of ALL China (hence One China policy = Taiwan island belongs to ruler of China, which is the CCP). They do is trying to gain favor with Mao and eventually with his successor Deng so they split the friendship between China and Soviet Union by opening up to China with favorable trade deals and free trade etc. hoping for China to obey the US hegemony. But of course China won't because China puts China first.
And right now the west is doing the same with India by trying to get India butting heads with China and Russia, by propping up India such as QUAD and favorable trade deals with them, but now upset with India is mass buying up Russia natural gas, again was hoping India to obey US hegemony but instead gets India first! So now the west is teaching India a lesson by smearing India with "credible allegation" that India is doing extraterristrial assassination on Sikh separatists on foreign soil, first in Canada, now US.

And NO WAY you can get the same level of TSMC in Arizona by the end of your first term Vivek. You need a highly dedicated and hard-working engineers. Those TSMC engineers work hard like Japanese and working 12-16 hours a day is the norm. Many of them came to Arizona to train US workers and went back to Taiwan to tell their media how lazy US workers are.

[hansweissmann_xviii]

The Real Reason China Wants Taiwan

Why don't we ask that question to an Indian bloke, who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. What can go wrong? Seriously.
Just calling it a "tiny island nation" is already indicative to the quality of his thinking.

[jessa]

This is terrifying just to hear, and yet this is the reality we live in and the path we face if we continue to do nothing.

[MrTrinitius]

Vivek is wrong about China’s motivations for Taiwan. TSMC is just a secondary issue. Don’t make the mistake of second guessing the Chinese using an American mindset. Face and national/family honour is more important than their own lives. If Vi can tell Xi that the US would agree to a 50-year peaceful reunification for Taiwan, then all the richest and smartest Taiwanese would automatically make a mad dash to the US and set up their facilities in the US without the need to spend a single cent. The CCP would feel eternally grateful and there’s no need to fight any warsl. The Chinese would then even be obligated to buy a few billion more bonds. It would be an all out win for the US. After a decade or two, all the technology would be obsolete anyway.

[charliedontsurf]

What makes this fool think he can get Russia to not continue to the Baltics and Poland? Also, if China could create high end chips, they wouldn’t need Taiwan. This is embarrassing.

[suzannederringer]

Vivek just keeps getting better. He's been wonderful on the ground in Iowa. I'm voting for him.

[netgiant]

What is much needed today in western media is a slice of the Chinese perspective. It’s only by getting other sides of the story that you will get closer to the truth. China’s main concern with Taiwan is not so much advanced Semiconductors (which they will soon be able to produce domestically) but more so their own national security. China has a history of being a victim of colonialism by western imperialists. As such there is an underlying distrust and fear of being invaded or attacked by western militaries.

Taiwan also has a history of being used as a launching pad for many attacks against the mainland (ie WW2). An independent Taiwan means the US would be able to establish another military base less than a hundred miles off the shores of the mainland using Taiwan as its unsinkable warship.

Just look at the fact that China already has a monopoly on rare earth minerals which is used to manufacture pretty much everything in our homes along with military weaponry but they have yet to really leverage that to cripple the US and its allies. Just shows This is not one of their objectives because China still has interests in trade and doing business with the west.

However with the US now arming Taiwan to the teeth with powerful weaponry like various ICBM missiles and sailing its own warships through the Taiwan straight regularly all the while using Taiwan as political leverage and a means for its next proxy war its no wonder why China would see securing Taiwan as an existential priority. I mean how would the US react if China was arming Puerto Rico or Hawaii and covertly supporting its independence from the US?

[paulmaugle]

Please address pharmaceutical independence from China and India.

[jeffb]

If I were the leader of Taiwan, I wouldn't like Vivek very much, he just said he would defend them now but if we're making our own semiconductors they can deal with China on their own.

[tabrezi]

Mr. President/ Candidate If you want to accomplish anything. You need to end
A) Dual citizenship
B) End funding of politics by lobbying firms and big corporations
C) stop all wars for next 50 years

[thomasrogers]

China is the worlds largest semi comductor market with 75% market shear. China also controles 80% of all rear earth minerals needed for U.S semiconductor market and ev. transunion. we need to have a win win respectful trade and political relationship with china and the world.

[blairjames]

A few facts for consideration. The highest-end chip manufacturing equipment is NOT made in Taiwan, it is MADE IN THE US. The best engineers for building fabs are hired from America, Germany and a handful of other Western countries. So all the TSMC fabs which churn out the latest chips are foreign-built. Taiwanese engineers are generally the assistants. So you don't need the Taiwanese to build factories, just to run them. And BT-dubs, TSMC hires locals, but all the other fabs get workers from SE Asia because the cheaper. Floor supervisors start at less than $1500 / month US, whereas floor workers minimum wage is around $600/month. So the problem isn't the build, it's running the plant with cheap labour. How do I know - I lived in Hsinchu, Taiwan for many years - almost 2 decades. Many of my students were Science Park workers, and their children, hung out with foreign engineers and locals all hired to either make fabs or to work in them.

[juliesteimle]

The situation of Taiwan is more complicated than Vivek has stated. I've lived there. It is not just a nationalistic dispute. Taiwan is a separate independent nation, but China refuses to recognize that. Most Chinese culture is also about face and face-saving. There is a lot of posturing and saber rattling in regards to China toward Taiwan. But the Communist Party of China believes the entire Chinese diaspora (including emigrants that have left the country) still belongs to the them. This is an issue of escaping dictators. I've lived in both places, and I know the people of Taiwan are prepared to defend their island nation to the death. If China were to invade, they would not be taking over the chip industry, they would be destroying it--because the Taiwanese would not give it to them.

[brucewilson]

A single company in Holland makes the machines that make the semi-conductors. Better secure that company.