JD Vance on Technology

Chips from Taiwan power the modern economy

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.

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.
• 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."

We need to break up the big tech companies

Time to stop complaining about Big Tech and do something