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High-Tech Firms Worry About Taiwan-China Tensions
Andy Tai writes "This San Jose Mercury News story shows high tech companies in the Silicon Valley worry about a possible war between mainland China and Taiwan. Both play important roles in the computer industry and the U.S. depends on both to finance the federal budget deficits. Many businessmen hope that economic considerations will prevent both sides from marching down a self-destructive path."
the memory shortages several years back when the taiwanese warehouses and manufacturers we blown away by a typhoon?
Chips, boards, capacitors, resistors and other micro components used by the military are all supplied by Tawian. Military action against the Tawian would force the US into protecting its own interests
I think Micron qualifies.
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For anyone who is as utterly clueless as I was about what's going on between China and Taiwan, take a look at this:
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/china/china-t
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Aside from the fact that China doesn't give a fuck about economic concerns, there isn't much chance of a war happening.
As unlikely as more people looking to China than the U.S. for hopes for a better future.
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speaking from experience living in both countries, i think the saddest thing in this whole issue is that the mainland chinese public as whole dont care one bit about taiwan or its people, and as far as most of them realise it is and has always been an administrative region of the peoples republic of china. Modern china is not as repressive as most people would tend to think, however any news in relation to taiwan basically refers to taiwanese president chen shuibian as a "rebel leader" or something of that sort.
Would the USA want to lose it's lucrative trade with China? The USA will hurt itself if it applies sanctions on Chinese goods, and China has a lot of trading partners.
So you're implying that the US would lose more from cutting off trade with China than China would? That's completely absurd. America has its thumb up everyone's trade butt; it also basically controls the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and is the forerunner in making free trade agreements with multiple countries.
China, on the other hand, is still very much developing its country; it has only recently seen a large boost in economic development. It, however, does not do nearly as much trade as the United States does. Basically China trades with the US, Japan, and South Korea.
And by land war I mean a war fought on Taiwan's land. It's pretty easy to cross the Taiwan Strait, because they make these things called boats. It would be similar to that other cross-water invasion that took place on June 6, 1945.
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Taiwant governors are against the large-scale investment plan of taiwan major IT manufactors to mainland china for poiltical reasons.
Furthermore they also disencourge people from mainland china visiting and treat all of them as spies. It means you must back to hotel before 7pm and report to your guide everyday! This prevents the normal technical communcation between two areas.
Thirdly there are not direct tranportation method between mainland china to taiwan (must via a third place.) The import tax is almost free for transport industry goods from taiwan to mainland china but is very high for inverse.
All of these aspects lead to the result of many additional, unreasonable costs are attached into the final IT products. One thing is surly confirm that many IT products will become much cheaper(such as motherboard, ram and monitor) if two areas are united, at least in terms of market.
In addition, in fact, for chinese people, we dont call taiwan and china as two countries(For long time western medias have been misleading this key point where most Chinese people, even many people in taiwan, are strongly against). Instead, we use taiwan district of China and mainland China, or Republic of China and People's Republic of China, agreed with both governments.
If you believe the Federation of American Scientists (note: link to support page, but just because they don't have a seperate "who we are" page), then as of 2000-04-04, Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, if you prefer to get your information from FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" then yes, Taiwan has acquired two nuclear warheads (this isn't Free Republic's research - this allegation comes from one "Jason Blatt" who appears to work/worked for the South China Morning Post - but I couldn't find the original article there...). Brought to you by google and the words 'taiwan', 'nuclear', and 'warhead'.
Sure, recent events between China and Taiwan have escalated recently, but it's not like affairs between the two countries have been all sunshine and light over the past half-century. Any company that is dependent upon trade from either country and is only worried *now* about hostilities erupting between the two nations should have done a little bit more homework on current events in the region before setting up shop. This is yet another of a long list of examples of how businesses can be myopic when it comes to any factor beyond "the bottom line".
I disagree. I know a lot more about the rich Chinese than the poor, because those are the ones I've actually visited and talked to. And although most of the conversation was being translated through an intermediate common language, I never once got the feeling that any of these (DVD-player-owning, new-car-buying with cash, etc.) people cared about politics at all. Or maybe I should say that they cared about politics the way people care about the weather; it's strange, interesting, and very useful, but it's not something you try to change. Your theory is good, and I would probably say the exact same thing if I hadn't seen otherwise. It could just be the people I talked to, but my impression is that there is so little tradition of political participation that they don't miss it.
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