The United States recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China. This is known as the "One China policy".

The United States needs China for industrial and consumer goods. Our economy is brittle and will quickly break without them. This is the logical result of US policy. China clamping down on Taiwan from the official US position is effectively China more tightly controlling thwir existing territory.

Not even close to what happened in Russia vs. Ukraine situation.

The US One China Policy does not at all say that Taiwan is part of the PRC, it rather states that both PRC and Taiwan view China as one.

> It also because Taiwan is our ally from WW2 days and we have a long history of friendship with them.

Taiwan during World War II, was part of the Japanese Empire...

The Kuomintang were our allies in WW2, and were forced to retreat to Taiwan in 1949.

When the famous WW2 Pilot Doolittle did his famous raid on Japan and crash-landed in China, it was the Kuomintang who saved those pilots and returned them safely to the USA, despite the Japanese atrocities that were occurring. (Well, Imperialist Japan did capture some of those pilots... but the Kuomintang did what they could)

Communist China then took over most of China and forced Kuomintang to retreat to Taiwan by 1949. And we call those people "Taiwanese" today. Historically, they are the rightful owners of China, though they lost the civil war.

Today, we're strategically ambiguous to try to not piss off China about our different viewpoints of history. But we're quickly coming to the point where ambiguity no longer helps. We're likely heading for war unfortunately.

If only Intel hadn't spent the last 8 years buying and slowly starving the only Xilinx competitor that could have matched it for capability.