Could be a huge deal.
This aid is not charitable. America needs to maintain its hegemony to continue benefiting from it and Taiwan is a critical strategic asset.
Also, the TSMC chip fabs getting blown up would shatter the world economy. That hurts everyone, not just American billionaires.
Of course that’s the motivation here, but fact isn’t anti-west enough for some folks around here. Sure, there is plenty of criticism to bring up about the foreign policy of America, but this is a move is expressly a war deterrent.
Straight Newspeak. You know what war deterrent is? Peace measures. Where are the brokered discussions between China/Taiwan trying to resolve the situation peacefully and in finality? Why not host both Chinese and Taiwanese dignitaries in a third country and attempt to negotiate some sort of end to this 3/4 century long game of chicken? People give the Swiss shit for their neutrality, but that’s exactly how peace happens.
Now, don’t take that by neutrality I mean to say that one should let one party overpower the other, but conversely, if we truly are the big world police, we should use our influence to extract concessions from the more powerful party to ensure fair dealings.
This is a complex geopolitical situation, not some black and white matter like so many contend.
