**In the case of Americans buying Taiwanese product, there is a double benefit as making Taiwan rich enough to carry the burden of her own defence costs would make it easier for the USA to stop subsidising them.
There is no place for logical and reasoned economics when it comes to the gung-ho nationalistic types you know - foreign = bad
There is no place for logical and reasoned economics when it comes to the gung-ho nationalistic types you know - foreign = bad