Defend Taiwan, But We Almost Certainly Won't Need To

On a recent trip I visited both South Korea and Taiwan. I thought both peoples were wonderful. Food, not so much. Taiwanese is excellent and Koreans either spice the living feces out of their food or don’t spice it at all. Both countries contribute tremendously to American imports in their entirety or in part. South Korea wouldn’t exist but for U.N. (primarily U.S.) intervention and Taiwan should continue to exist as a separate country. I just think that, if the U.S. shows resolve, China will never invade. 

We need Taiwan. “Taiwanese companies hold a 68 percent market share in the manufacture of semiconductors,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company “produces around 90 percent of the world’s leading-edge semiconductors that are used for artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing applications.” If that’s not enough, Taiwan will be critical in ensuring America has the first commercial quantum computers. That’s vital because such computers could decrypt any current codes and essentially win World War III without having to fire a shot.