US forced Taiwan to terminate it's nuclear programs twice, in the 60s and 80s. Balance of power would be different if Taiwan has nukes now.

Never understood why europe allowed so many of these immigrants into their countries in the first place as there are plenty of Islamic countries near from where they fled from and the question is why did they not seek out those countries or on the flip side why did those countries not take them in.

KMT leans toward China. KMT was the nationalist coming to Taiwan after being defeated in the mainland by the communist. The party prefers eventual unification with China even though the CCP was its enemy. KMT is a minor party now in Taiwan, but can still often work againt the governing party DPP on military buget, defense acquisition, and policy of military service, etc. It is a problem on defense and forign polocies.

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Visualmpolitik is crap, super biased media.

Enough of 1000+ years of Western Colonial worldwide atrocities. Lies. Exploitations. Scandals. Centuries of racism. Centuries of racist hateful propaganda. Hypocrisy. War crimes. Centuries of Corruptions. Mercenary Terroist organizations. Colonial proxy wars. Enough is enough. Western colonialism never ended. Ukraine. India. Pakistan. Isreal. Palestine. Myanmar. Bangladesh. Hong Kong. Taiwan. Syria. Libya. Cuba. Middle East. Philippines. Vietnam. Native America. Kashmir. Native Australia. China. Korea. Venezuela. Iran. Iraq. Afghanistan. Africa. Guam. Hawaii...ect ect. HOW MANY NATIONS DOES WESTERN COLONIALISM NEED TO DESTROY AND EXPLOIT!? In EVERY invaded/conflict/war torn location there are always 1000+ years of Western Colonial Exploitive Corrupt Energy Companies drilling and mining that nation by the back door. GLENCORE. BLACKROCK.

So far out of all these options, the three state solutions seems the most plausible and reasonable.

If you fight drug addiction, you fight narcs, an that is bad for weapons business.

They are too comfortable

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The reason Taiwan spent less in Defense is because the former president Ma Ying-jeou is Pro China. He even cut down the military service from 1 year to 4 months only. Ma Ying-jeou is the Taiwan version of Viktor Yanukovych. The Pro US president former president Tasi gradually increase military budget and roll back military service to 1 year.

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I would argue that the amount spent on defense should not only count the Military spending. In a free and open democracy, free speech is a double-edged sward, PRC knows that very well. On the Internet and in the media, there has always been an ongoing war(I do think war is an adequate term to use) in terms of swaying the direction of the people's opinions. If you count all the efforts the general public put in in fighting against such "attacks," the amount of GDP spent in defense would be much higher. PRC prefers to buy Taiwan than taking by force, if PRC can utilize information warfare to sway the opinion their way, that's what they will do, and that's where Taiwan need to put effort in defending itself. Also, as I look into different industries, the development of Taiwan's economy appears to have been built in a way that forces other like-minded democracies to help in the event of any trouble. There is a saying "Democracy doesn't put food on the table," which I feel is part of the reason why Taiwan is developing in the way it is. Since so many democracies have capitalistic economies, money speaks louder than ideology(sadly.) To ensure like-minded democracies will come to aid, putting a higher amount of GDP into creating such economic dependencies is a reasonable defense strategy. (US-China trade war also emphasizes why this is important IMHO) In terms of raw military power, PRC's simply too large for Taiwan to justify putting all spending into just military, it has to get creative. In recent months, it would seem PRC has gone all out on destabilizing Taiwan from within, the chaos on the Internet/media has never been so bad from my experience.(maybe I'm just getting deeper into the topic, I don't know) Side note, Taiwanese people do seem to be more aware of information warfare in general compared to western countries such as the US. (opinion, not fact)

Dated analysis. Both the US & EU are decoupling from China and planning to make their own chips. Beijing’s belligerence is forcing this change.

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The key to Taiwan's defense depends on their national identity and the commitment of the people and the army to resist China at all costs. Ukraine is proving this today, though admittedly with the latest Western weapon systems to support them, but Vietnam managed to defeat the U.S. military with a fraction of the hardware and trained personnel arrayed against it. If the Taiwanese people fight with that level of intensity and sacrifice, they could beat China in a grueling war of attrition, if not then is doesn't matter how much hardware they purchase or build.

The immigrants don't integrate. They want a parallel government.

Glad to know that the West is waking up. They've been asleep for almost too long.

You left out a huge fact: there are only 12 beaches suitable for an amphibious landing in Taiwan. ALL OF THEM are rigged with oil pumps that will set them all on fire in the event of an invasion. There is also the contingency plan to destroy the TSMC fab plants in the event of an invasion.

Let's see what happens if Trump wins and tells Taiwan that we will not defend them. Or we finish the Semi-conductor Fabrication plants in the US and no longer really need TSMC. I bet their spending will go up dramatically. The US might have made a mistake to say they would fight for them (I wrote this early in the video and you folks said the same stuff... nice). They should buy more missiles (anti-air and anti-ship) than they will ever need and invest in Submarines. Stop China in the Straight.

Creative thinking at its best!

The answer is quite simple : Asymmetric warfare If the strategy was not effective, we're already fallen long ago.

this chanel has become the mouthpiece of the military-industrial complex of the US.

Visual Politik always falls for Trump's bluffs hook, line, and sinker. His strategy is to play both sides. He tells allies to meet their defense agreements, or he might cut them off, and then he turns around and tells his enemies that he might just start an open war with them. It's the fact that everybody thinks he is volatile enough to do either that makes allies feel unsafe and enemies feel unsure. He might be a paper tiger, but nobody is willing to call his bluff. It certainly works better than letting your enemies think you won't do anything and your allies think you will, and then waiting till conflict has already broken out to provide military aid.

US sends Taiwan enough military weapons to protect themselves, other than that, Taiwan is on there own, maybe?

So we were lie to

If the US wants to continue its role as the police of the world to prevent another superpower from waging another world war then the US must step in.

Everyone, including Us know that Taiwan is China. Problems are Created by corporation who don't want accloladge china Electronics manufacturers development going to china.

President Biden promising to defend Taiwan is as credible as President Obama promising to act against Bashar Assad should he use chemical weapons on civilians..Assad called the American bluff and used chemical weapon on his people. America needs to rebuild its industrial base and restore American people’s faith by honoring the American dream…these are pre-requisites to prepare America for emperor Xi’s campaign for the “glorious rejuvenation of the Chinese race”.

The 'more military spending equals right-wing' and 'less military spending equals left-wing' argument doesn't stand up to history I'm afraid. Many of the most brutal military regimes of the last hundred years have been communist or outright socialist, which are both left-wing.

Is Taiwan still planning to import 100,000 Indian workers? Tens of millions of young Indians have been jobless for years, and desperately waiting for work.

The combination of Chinese aggression and bullying of its neighbors and the increasing unreliability of the US as an ally makes "going nuclear" a pretty obvious choice for both Japan and S Korea. Both countries have the technical capability and, in the case of a Trump second term, it seems almost inevitable that both countries will choose to develop nuclear weapons to deter Chinese aggression. And both Japan and S Korea already have the missile technology needed to make nukes a credible deterrent.

If 2% of GDP in peacetime is questionable, what should we say about a country that barely spent 3%, over 8 years of active fighting on their own soil? While also being one of the most (if not, the most) corrupt country in Europe? Apparently, we say "Here's $250Billion & another $50B for later."🤦‍♂

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American industry and infrastructure made the United States a global superpower that is over a century ago from the Industrial Revolution. To the Panama canal. To interstate Highway.

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Why should they? They know very well that they have no chance if a war breaks out

You seem like you really want a war between Taiwan and China yeh?

The status quo has been in existence since 1949. However, in the last few years, the US, which is a country that has agreed that there is only one China, is doing what it has done all across the world, find a way to sell weapons. Of course, they do not care how many people are killed when these wars break out. It is America's play book for centuries. China invading Taiwan just shows how silly and uninformed America and its accomplices are. Does a country invade itself? Americans should at least learn something from their own history. For, it is western europe and America that have invasion the chief part of their foreign policy. The Chinese are intelligent people and they have more than 5000 years of wisdom that allow them to conduct themselves honourably at home and abroad. That cannot be said about American and its criminal accomplices in western europe. They should be learning from China on the matters of public policy and international relations.

A lot of people are suffering and could possibly die because one man’s power is threatened by the thought of democracy and loosing power. One man ffs.

Before Trump, US wouldn't even sell replacement parts for Taiwan's aging tanks out of fear of angering China. Few countries were willing to sell arms to Taiwan, so how can they spend?

You do know Taiwan is officially a province of China under the UN resolution? 70+countries vote yes to this one China resolution

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He gets the strategic ambiguity wrong. Strategic ambiguity only stated that DPRC is China ROC is china. Taiwan belong to China but which China. Wrong information. 😂

It seems to me that Taiwan spends tons of their tax revenue to subsidize their national health care. They have the best social Healthcare system in the world. Maybe that's why they don't spend more on the military

That -Te suffix of Lai Ching Te is correctly pronounced as "Duh " , as in Lai Ching Duh.

Does it actually matter? Even if they spend all of GDP on defence, 28 million ppl vs 1.4 billion, i think i know who wins...

They need to grab all of the low hanging fruits first. Land/sea mines, sea/air drones, Javelins, dragon's teeth, defense lines, cyber warfare capabilities, extend mandatory military service for all males, etc.

Interesting perspective from an outsider, but most Mexicans don’t consider him a failure because they aren’t concerned with the drug epidemic or the migration crisis in the US to put it bluntly. Mexico has problems of their own aside from organized crime believe it or not, and you will be left alone anyway for the most part as long as you don’t get involved with the criminals in the first place, for the average citizen at least. AMLO has pretty much course shifted us away from an oligarch-run country who sells Mexico’s resources to their most generous benefactors and spend their tax money on luxury goods and private jets, to one were our resources are our own and contribute to the well being of the citizens. He also stands up for us on the political and commercial stage, like refusing the US’ deal to sell us genetically modified pig feed as corn which is a big part of our diet, and pushing back against predatory companies that abuse the environment like Vulcan Materials. He has given us hope and an ideal of excellence to strive for

It's much simpler. They think the United States will 100% defend them. Problem is, they don't understand American politics: Now Republicans who hate China will 100% defend them with the full weight of American military might to the end. But Democrats are China friendly globalist socialists. If the Democrats are in charge when China invades, the response will be either late, botched, not enough, unprepared, all of the above, or just a token condemnation and call for peace while telling the American people "It's not worth American lives". Taiwan better defense spend like their survival depends on it. Because it does.