(22-04-2024, 12:25 AM)Manthink Wrote: Suggest you read the chart again - your "50%" is base don which figure? Between Dec to Feb seasonal change due to CNY holidays ?
The larger data shows Chinese Taipei remains one of the key players in the larger China trade eco-system which even the US cannot replace, no matter how US gov force Taiwanese businesses (read TSMC) to setup shops in Arizona.
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It is 2024 data recent month data, Tw export to mC fell below to US.
US trade deficit with mC dip but deficit with Tw increased.
It could be permanent trend given mC begin its own chip production, need to monitor.
2023 without favorable chip price, economy grew slower.
Taiwan Q4 preliminary GDP beats forecast, 2023 growth at 1.4%
Jan 31, 2024Full year growth of 1.4% slightly missed the statistics bureau's November forecast of 1.42%, its slowest pace in 14 years and lower than the 2.45% growth for 2022. The economy in China, Taiwan's largest export market, grew
Mar 6, 2024Published by C. Textor , Mar 6, 2024. In 2023, the annual growth rate of the real gross domestic product (GDP) in Taiwan amounted to approximately 1.3 percent. GDP refers to the total market value ...
Anyway DT asked before the benefits of defending Tw , so he know it is not to US interests.
With US coming pension problems, are they too free.
What will US young think, if they return home after war to see their working opportunities taken away.
So selling weapons is to much better than send troop in.