Graham Allison
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first heard Mar 2026
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Now, over the longer run, the Chinese are absolutely clear, Xi and all the leadership, that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China.
and how that could be satisfied in a way that allow the Taiwanese the degree or substantial degree of the freedom with both their economy and their society is the challenge that we've been struggling with for a long time.
But the good news is we've been doing this for 50 years, and Taiwan has never seen such circumstances.
So I say to the Taiwanese friends, you know, basically,
Don't screw it up.
Sure.
That's a big question.
So first, Scott Besant, the Secretary of the Treasury, when he's asked about this, he says the biggest threat that he's ever seen is the fact that 96% of the advanced semiconductors come from one small island that could become cut off.
So TSMC, as you all have discussed before,
produces the advanced semiconductors for essentially everybody of whom we're the principal consumer.
And we prevent them shipping this to China.
That's a pretty complicated situation to begin with.
Secondly, Taiwan is halfway around the world, as President Trump says, and 90 miles off the shore of China.
And we're far away and we have a lot of other things to worry about.
So it's a little bit like Cuba.
So inherently indefensible if China were seriously determined to either destroy it or to take it.
Now, on the other hand, since the opening to China and the Shanghai communique, there's been an agreement of maintaining a status quo.
with the U.S.
commitment being what's called strategic ambiguity, in which the U.S.
and China have been committed to Taiwan
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