So that's why Taiwan, obviously with the chip supply chain semiconductors, but also its position geopolitically between China and the United States, it makes Taiwan a critical, critical cog in the geopolitical tensions that we're seeing right now.

But again, you have sort of these geopolitical issues and these other reasons that people move and change locations.

What is the biggest threat to who is the geopolitical threat to the United States?

Many maps and borders represent modern geopolitical divisions that have often been decided without the consultation, permission, or recognition of the land's original inhabitants.

And the EU doesn't want to be dependent on Asia or the US for access to semiconductors because we've seen how that technology can be used as a pawn in some of these geopolitical conflicts like we've seen between the US and China in the past few years.

and they'd realized the entire Chinese tech ecosystem relied on a foundation of imported silicon from China's geopolitical adversaries, from the United States, from Japan, from Taiwan.

Vance and Pete Hegseth the Defense Secretary where the Europeans were described as pathetic as freeloaders and that there was a disdain for doing anything that would help the Europeans but a sense that they would sort of be asked to pay for it later so it had significant diplomatic and geopolitical consequences in the aftermath of that the question started to emerge about whether Mike Waltz's position was tenable.

On the other, they're facing increased tension and pressure over geopolitical issues, growing supply chain resiliency problems, and an aging workforce.

Competitiveness in this space is crucial for the U.S., which has been seeking to as geopolitical tensions rise.

There are geopolitical economic security factors involved.