When you first took up this hobby and started cycling out in the countryside, how did your perspective on Taiwan start to open up or change at all?

all?You're right to point to this because my discovery of cycling occurred in the early '90s, right around the time when I had been to China.

It was kind of interesting because one of the things that made me more, um...

Just before I'd gone to China for the first time in 19-...

I think this, 1991 maybe, I, I, I was-- I stayed in this hostel right near the, the Taipei train station, and there were all these protests going on.

But I remember one in particular, 'cause I was right there, so you just run into them.

I remember one in particular was, uh, there were all these, like, really angry, tough-looking farmers and stuff like that, and they were throwing bricks, and the, the, the, the riot police came in, and people were getting beat up, and people were throwing bottles.

How does this work in Taiwan? Is Taiwan open to people becoming Taiwanese citizens and getting a, a Taiwanese passport? And as you started mentioning there, what's their position on dual nationality? I- is this something that you think they'll be open to in the future?

Am I seeing that correctly?

That's, that's not like why I do it that way.

That's, that's like a benefit.

I just look at the squat as again, being that vehicle for like initial squatting to me is all about, especially box squatting is about overcoming your inertia.

So whether that is to, to launch out in a sprint, change direction or jump, um, It's that initial acceleration or deceleration, the initial acceleration or sort of the endpoint deceleration.

And I've made a video about this on Twitter that I need to put up on my YouTube because it's impossible to find things on Twitter.

Like I call it like squat, lunge, pull.

As somebody that deals with velocity a lot, how have you narrowed down what it is you want to use and when?

You know, if you can't make it through that course now, you're just, you know, let's go on to something else because this one ain't going to do it for you.

Well, that's a lot like geared powerlifting.

When you talk to people, especially people who try gear, and there's a lot of people who try gear and they like freak out very quickly.

They put the gear on.

They become so physically agitated that it's so tight.

And then you throw the massive overload of weight on them.

And that way it's kind of similar almost to like belted marches again.

plate walks and dumbbells because other than that the program was exactly the same for both kids is it possible to get faster without sprinting oh

So that's, I think, the main two drawbacks from this policy.

First, I think that the one interesting detail in this story was that apparently one of the main concerns is that it's not just that Taiwan makes the most advanced chips.

for ai applications another side of taiwan's tech boom is that it also makes the most advanced servers that that house those chips and then can go into data centers to to power ai applications and apparently an area of particular concern here is that well the chips are here and a lot of the advanced servers are here so taiwan is a really obvious place to put banned chips into a server and then sell the server to some company in China that's not Huawei, and thereby circumvent the US's chip controls, which I think that there's a growing consensus that the U.S. chip controls aren't working very well because chips are getting exported through third countries.

I believe Malaysia is a major center for transshipment to China.

And while it's true that the Chinese government doesn't want companies buying the most advanced chips.

They're still significant from the U.S. There's still significant demand in China to get their hands on these chips, to use them in order to build the applications that can win government subsidies and business in China to further China's self-sufficiency.

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