When the Costs of Protecting Taiwan Became Negotiable in Price

Next on the “lot”, we have an entire island “country” (hello, had you NOT been reading???) about to sink, so come in and get a PIECE, at the CHEAPEST price, and yes, everything MUST go, today at the AUCTION here, so, don’t let your chances slide by!  And that, is how this SHIT’s gonna go, down here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Lutnick the Secretary of Commerce of the U.S., treated Taiwan’s promises of investing $500 billion as “a grand gestures to shift production of the microchips of TMSC to U.S.”, and claimed, “they must keep our president happy, for our president is the key to Taiwan’s safety.”  The controversial part of his statements is not if it’s true, but how this bluntness clearly showed, that in the American-Taiwanese trade relations and the relations of security of Taiwan to the U.S., that sort of a high unproportional, but long-term wrapped up as “cooperation that are mutually benefitting” structure of, power.

and this still doesn’t do SHIT!!! Photo from online

On the surfaces, Lutnick only elevated an investment of the enterprise to a national level of tactile collaboration; but returning back to the wording, what’s meant by “giant promise”, isn’t of how the U.S. would protect Taiwan, but the transferable assets of core technologies of semiconductor chip production to the U.S..  When “protecting Taiwan” is solely reliant on “how happy Taiwan can make the U.S. president”, not from the systems of alliances, legal obligations, or long-term tactile consensuses, the safety of the country gets devalued into a negotiable, unstable, changing product of politics.

slowly spreading across the U.S. and Europe…video from YouTube

What’s more ironic was, this form of describing the relationship of Taiwan and U.S. became matter-of-fact.  Taiwan’s investments in the U.S., it isn’t for the sake for the benefits of the layout of the industries, nor is it an option of keeping the enterprises competitive long-term, but a sort of a tribute system.  Under this frame, Taiwan is no longer a key part of the systems of division of labor in the professional field, but one that needs to constantly make the offerings to prove that we’re worthy of protection.

The founder of TMSC, Chang many years ago, warned of the geopolitical influences, he’d stated that “globalization is dead, so is free trade”, wasn’t an emotional statement, but a calm and thoroughly believed new world order; as the advanced production means became the core of the competitiveness of the country, the importance of the enterprises had long exceeded the market efficiency, and became a bargaining chip of the country’s safety and politics.  Lutnick’s claims, is a most blunt footnote to this.

The deeper, and more dangerous issue, is that once this route that the country will be force to take gets rationalized, the semiconductor technology gets hollowed out, we will lose our foothold in the bargaining of survival in the geopolitical spheres.  Semiconductor is what made Taiwan valuable, isn’t in symbolism, nor in its replaceability.  As the advanced production capabilities, the cores of research, and the know-hows of production continues to move overseas to U.S., when other countries slowly builds up the self-support systems of their own semiconductor production chains, Taiwan will become, obsolete.  And by then, protecting the country will naturally stop being the core benefits and interests of other countries, and the result would be the leftover of the political wills, and the preferential then.

in Iran, from YouTube…

And, under this spectrum, Lutnick had packaged this structural pressure as “choice”, which becomes even more absurd.  The only response Lutnick gave: because the U.S. president holds the power to protect.  This isn’t the explanation of U.S.’s motives but a negative declaration.  When our safety is set as the only prerequisite, all the investment options given to us are no longer choices, but a long-term payment plan, an ATM for the U.S. to withdraw, from.

Ultimately, the most alarming of this, is when this is believed to be matter-of-fact, would there be the bottom lines of the stricter settings of how much the industries, the enterprises gets, sold out?  When “make Trump happy” became the ultimate goal of rational investments, this is not just the irony for the market economy, but an in-depth erosion to the free trade economy.

And so, this is what the sell-out means, not just for this “country” (hello, hello, hello???), but for the rest of the world, and because the precedence had been set, from Ukraine (the rare earth metals), Venezuela (the crude oil resources, not to mention Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize), are all “tradable” under Trump’s control of the entire world economy, nothing will BE, sacred anymore.

spreading across Europe, slowly…video from YouTube

Because everything CAN be bought AND sold WHEN the prices are, right, and this just doesn’t impact this tiny island “country” (are you FUCKING shitting me here!!!) that I’m currently living on, but to the rest of the world as well, because Trump’s appetite is too enormous to satisfy, because he’d gotten things HIS way, and that will feed to his thirst for more power, and he won’t stop until he completely DOMINATES all of the world’s resources.

This country is just a NOBODY that got, sacrificed on the SHRINE of Trump’s ambition, nothing more…