Taiwan is a pawn in the battle between the US and China for global influence. That is a terrible place to be, as the Ukraine war is showing us.
We should all hope that people take a step back. There is no reason why China and the US can't have peaceful cooperation. It is true that semiconductors are a flash point, but China has never had a problem with exporting valuable products to other countries. The West needs to realize that the future involves actual diplomacy. Somehow, the neocons keep going back to World War II as the great origin story for international relations. Internal problems and our feckless leaders are a far greater threat to the US than Russi…
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Aug 09, 2022
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One estimate I have seen shows that since Sep 11, the top 5 defense contractors in the US earned $2.3trn of defense contracts from the Pentagon and spent $1.2bn on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. The top 5 defense contractors spend more money as a share of their revenue on lobbying than any US companies, including Facebook and Amazon
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Aug 04, 2022
Hi David,
Thank you for starting the index with RIWI. I notice that the scale goes from -2 to +2, and even with the surge we are at .2 at the highest. Doesn't that indicate a fairly neutral sentiment?
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Jeff, these numbers are now approaching the levels of my indices for Russia and Ukraine
Taiwan is a pawn in the battle between the US and China for global influence. That is a terrible place to be, as the Ukraine war is showing us.
We should all hope that people take a step back. There is no reason why China and the US can't have peaceful cooperation. It is true that semiconductors are a flash point, but China has never had a problem with exporting valuable products to other countries. The West needs to realize that the future involves actual diplomacy. Somehow, the neocons keep going back to World War II as the great origin story for international relations. Internal problems and our feckless leaders are a far greater threat to the US than Russi…
Hi David,
Thank you for starting the index with RIWI. I notice that the scale goes from -2 to +2, and even with the surge we are at .2 at the highest. Doesn't that indicate a fairly neutral sentiment?