The tech is mostly from US funded research. Taiwan itself wouldn’t even exist without US military. Give me a break.
That's what the parent comment meant
And at least reading between the lines with China, Taiwans days are numbered.
They’re choice is move their factories offshore or give them up to China.
I'm not sure the US would let this happen. Maybe they'd just level the factories with cruise missiles before China can get hold of them.
Sounds like a stressful work environment.
Does the USA recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No.
Does the PRC recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No.
Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland China? No.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) is not going to say that China is separate from china. Their position is that Taiwan is the rightful ruler of mainland china (currently controlled by the communist party).
The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders.
Not sure how much more sovereign you can get than that.
Being that the Taiwanese government claims Beijing and Shanghai as being within its borders, I don't think that this is the case.
It’s a sovereign state with claims over a larger territory than it controls.
Then the question is why wouldn't they want to give them to PRC? TW semi was expanding fabs in mainland before US export controls, TW semi workers were being handsomely rewarded with huge compensation packages until DPP cracked down on cross strait headhunting/recruitment. Both profitable TW semi industry and underpaid TW semi workers benefitted massively from integrating with PRC semi, their choice was to give up to PRC, until (US) politics made that not a choice. So at least in that sense US stole the opportunities of TW semi that saw benefits to closer integration with - giving up - to PRC.
Kudos for providing the opportunities for these brilliant people, great success through the year of executing programs for bringing Nazi scientists, Soviet scientists etc. but if we are going to keep tabs you might find out that that the American science and technology is not that much American after all.
And just why do you think all these brilliant people leave for the US? Let’s think about that for a moment.
May I as you what great school gave you this powerful reasoning powers are are you self taught?