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My sympathies are absolutely with Taiwan in this.
I hope when Xi is out that maybe China will finally recognize Taiwan as an independent country.
Regarding China sanctioning American companies over this, they are just using the American rule book, that USA has so often used against China. So there is no reasonable way we can call foul over that.
Considering they are weapons manufacturers, were they likely to be selling anything to China? I know we spread the weapons around, but I thought we specifically don't sell to China, Russia, Iran, and some others.
Who you mean by "they" is a bit unclear to me, but I bet neither USA or Taiwan are selling weapons to China.
I am also sure that part of the increased tension is because USA has sanctioned TSMC from selling high grade chips to for instance Huawei.
China has had good reason to be pissed at the "west" for a long time, unfortunately they now behave just as bad.
But as I see it, USA absolutely started this shitshow.
PS: Recently there were talks that even Turkey who is a NATO member couldn't be allowed to receive high tech NATO weapons. Because they made an agreement buying Russian equipment that required Russian technicians to teach their use.
This was considered a security risk, as it might give Russians access to sites that had NATO equipment.
So most definitely no NATO country is selling weapons to China, Russia, North Korea or Iran. I think Taiwan has a defense agreement with USA, that would prevent them too even if they wanted to. But I doubt they want to give weapons to their biggest security threat.
The they I was referring to are the defence manufacturers that China just slapped with tariffs. Seems to be performative.
Whether they deliver to China is completely irrelevant in that respect.
It's what they buy from China that is important. And it's also what their suppliers buy and sell to China.
China has monopolies on rare earth elements that may be very tough for some of these companies to lose access to.
Don't for a second think that USA has the upper hand in this situation, because that time has passed, on international trade China is now their equal, and on rare earth resources China has a very decisive upper hand.
For instance the very powerful magnets needed for much high tech equipment, is near impossible to make in quantity without access to rare earth minerals that China control.
Looks like some "independent" corporations will need to make some rare earth pizza ovens then, since they applied them to corporations, and not the US as a whole. As I said, performative. Looks like China is trying to get trump to apply a ton of tarrifs, so that they have cassus belli, or reasons to continue the trade war.