Taiwan's Strategic Value May Collapse Within 18 Months as US Chip Capacity Surges

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warns that Taiwan could lose its primary strategic importance to the US within 18 months as domestic semiconductor manufacturing scales up, with President Trump openly signalling reluctance to defend the island militarily. This shift in global power alignment is prophetically significant: the weakening of Western resolve, the reordering of Pacific alliances, and the rising dominance of China all accelerate the geopolitical conditions Scripture associates with the end-times alignment of eastern powers. Revelation 16:12 speaks of the kings of the East rising to prominence, and the erosion of deterrence in the Pacific represents a measurable step toward that configuration.