Niall Ferguson, a renowned British historian who was selected by Time magazine as one of the “100 most influential people in the world” and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, believes that if If the U.S. loses or does not intervene in the Taiwan Strait conflict and allows Taiwan to fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. will not only lose its dominant position in the Indo-Pacific region, but will also let the Chinese Communist Party get Taiwan’s “sacred mountain”, TSMC, and give up its position of global hegemony to the Chinese Communist Party, because “the one who wins Taiwan wins the world The reason is that “the one who wins Taiwan wins the world”.
Ferguson wrote to Bloomberg News, pointing out that while some people think Taiwan’s status is equivalent to Belgium in 1914 or Poland in 1939, the next world war, Taiwan is more like the Suez Canal for the United States, which led to Britain’s loss of global leadership. In 1956, under diplomatic and economic pressure, Britain abandoned military action on the Suez Canal, which ultimately led to the destruction of the British overseas colonial system and was the turning point in the transformation of the imperial lion into a “paper tiger.
In 1971, then U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger made a secret visit to China, hoping to facilitate a visit by then President Richard Nixon, get the U.S. out of the Vietnam War, and work with Beijing to pressure the Soviet Union to slow down nuclear arms. The Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai, was so tightly focused on Taiwan that he forced Kissinger to give in and expel Taiwan from the United Nations.
Ferguson emphasized that today, the Chinese Communist Party remains focused on “the one who wins Taiwan wins the world,” while the U.S. is still scattered around the globe, making it difficult to focus its efforts. If the U.S. loses or does not intervene in the Taiwan Strait conflict and allows the Chinese Communist Party to occupy Taiwan, unlike when the U.S. military withdrew from Vietnam with only a small impact, it will not only mean that the Chinese Communist Party has broken through the first island chain, but also that TSMC, the world’s largest manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs), which is regarded as the “new oil” manufacturing mecca, will fall into the Chinese Communist Party’s territory, which will undoubtedly become the modern version of Suez. This will undoubtedly become a modern version of the “Suez Canal Crisis”, which will ultimately bring the United States down.
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