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Chips from Taiwan power the modern economy
A Trump-Vance administration would be more involved in Taiwan. "Vance would strengthen and increase tech restrictions," [one analyst] said. "He would pay attention to Taiwan because he believes that it is very important to the US economy, especially in
terms of chips."That was apparent when Vance said that if mainland China attacked Taiwan, the US would lose a lot of chips and new technologies "that are necessary to power the modern economy". "We can't let the Chinese walk into Taiwan," Vance said.
Beijing sees Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary, and most countries do not recognise Taiwan as an independent state. These include the United States, though it is opposed to any forcible change to the status quo and is bound
by law to provide arms to Taiwan for its defence. The US started to limit exports of semiconductors to China during the Trump administration to curb Beijing's hi-tech development, which Washington saw as a threat to its defence.
Source: South China Morning Post on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 16, 2024
Infrastructure bill spends billions on bad priorities
Economy : Decrease or increase government investment in, and regulation of, the economy?- Tim Ryan (D): Increase investment. Voted for the
Build Back Better Act, to finance education, childcare, healthcare and environment. Also backed the infrastructure bill to finance railroads and electric grid improvements.
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J.D. Vance (R): Decrease investment. "We can't spend money that we don't have."
Opposed infrastructure bill. "We can't let some good parts of a bill justify spending hundreds of billions of dollars that we don't have on bad priorities."
Source: Guides.vote candidate survey on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Nov 1, 2022
We need to break up the big tech companies
The tech industry promised all of us better lives and faster communication; instead, it steals our private information, sells it to the Chinese, and then censors conservatives and others for daring to have a controversial opinion.
The solution is simple: we need to break up the big tech companies, to reduce their power in our economy and our politics. We also need to ban the theft of our personal information. If they want our data, it's time they paid for it.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
, Oct 3, 2021
Time to stop complaining about Big Tech and do something
Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor donated $10 million to a super PAC to promote Vance, someone who has railed against Big Tech as being in league with establishment Republicans. Vance delivered a red meat speech that
incorporated his attacks on Big Tech. Specifically, he alluded to how social media networks, including Facebook, have banned Trump. "It's time to stop complaining about Big Tech," Vance said. "It's time to start doing something about it."
Source: NBC News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 1, 2021
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