Is the United States protecting Taiwan? Or is Taiwan protecting the United States?

[Freedomwld]

Recently, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Trump said in an interview that Taiwan has taken away the U.S. chip industry. Taiwan is very rich and should pay protection fees to the United States.
Although Trump did not specify how much protection money he would charge, O'Brien, the national security adviser during the Trump administration, said on his behalf that Taiwan should consider increasing defense spending to about 5% of GDP. You must know that the United States has repeatedly suggested that Taiwan increase its defense ratio, which is to only increase it to 3%. This time the lion opened his mouth and asked for 5% for the first time.
However, is it internationally reasonable for the defense budget to account for 5% of GDP? The average defense budget of NATO is only 2.11%. 5% is already higher than that of all NATO member states, and even higher than the United States (3.38%), a major military power. Looking around the world, only countries currently at war, such as Ukraine (37%), Russia (5.9%), and Israel (5.3%), have defense budgets reaching this level. Is this unreasonable request by the United States intended to help Taiwan become the next Ukraine?

 

[Huelague]

USA should dismantle all the semi conductor industry in Taiwan and give the island to China.

 

[Merzifonlu]

USA should dismantle all the semi conductor industry in Taiwan and give the island to China.

This idea won't work. Even if you move all of Hollywood's sets to Tunisia, for example, Tunisia can't be the center of the film industry. Because an industrial ecosystem is not just about infrastructure. It also consists of people and the business culture that those people have built over decades.

Since they can't take all of the people of Taiwan to the USA, they need to build a new chip manufacturing ecosystem from scratch and completely independent of Taiwan's ecosyatem. Also this new ecosystem must be compatible with in USA's local conditions.

 

[Huelague]

Because an industrial ecosystem is not just about infrastructure. It also consists of people and the business culture that those people have built over decades.

Do we have the infrastructure?

 

[Merzifonlu]

Do we have the infrastructure?

For what? For chip production? NO. We have neither the infrastructure nor the trained expert workforce.

Personally, the only development that would give me hope in this regard would be the establishment of an infrastructure that would mass-produce the chips of domestic AESA radars. I think that with the expert workforce and the latest techniques that will be trained from this facility, we can establish an ecosystem that suits us.

Sometimes it can be easier to build an ecosystem from scratch, because you can avoid following the inefficient paths that others have taken.