Tonight, listening to the CODEPINK presentation on Taiwan and China featuring Carl Zha I learned a lot about the history of Taiwan, China, Japan, and the US going back to the Ming dynasty. Much more complicated than I had imagined.
But in some additional commentary after the main presentation, I learned these things about the Computer Chips situation.
1) Trump banned the sale of chips made in Taiwan to China. Since Taiwan is the worlds largest manufacturer of computer chips, but China is the worlds largest manufacturer of finished goods, you can see how this would be a problem.
2) Trump also banned the sale of computer chips made in China to the USA. Nowadays China is also a big manufacturer of computer chips.
I believe we should end destructive bans on the sales of computer chips from Taiwan and China. We should also seek a more peaceable relationship with China. Even rolling the clock back to 2010 in these regards would be a big step forwards.
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