{"id":9819,"date":"2023-04-29T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/how-war-in-taiwan-could-mean-the-wheels-come-off-the-uk-economy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:37:28","slug":"how-war-in-taiwan-could-mean-the-wheels-come-off-the-uk-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/how-war-in-taiwan-could-mean-the-wheels-come-off-the-uk-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"How war in Taiwan could mean the wheels come off the UK economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microchips are an issue, of course, but China also makes the alloy wheels our cars mostly roll on. And what about TikTok? We look at ways a conflict might inflict yet more harm on our struggling businesses <\/p>\n<p>As the world struggles with the economic fallout from the Ukraine war, fears are mounting about a conflict that would be even more consequential: a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister said he was preparing for the possibility of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/21\/taiwan-foreign-minister-warns-of-conflict-with-china-in-2027\" title=\"\">conflict with China in 2027<\/a>, and a leaked memo from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/us-general-gut-feeling-war-china-sparks-alarm-predictions\" title=\"\">four-star US general said his \u201cgut\u201d told him<\/a> the US \u2013 which is committed to defending Taiwan \u2013 would be at war with China in 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/apr\/29\/how-war-in-taiwan-could-mean-the-wheels-come-off-the-uk-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be0ce794f1ddfa35adce2a466e02281fe20fbeaf\/0_260_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cac1ad7ca0be8103a6c1b5389fc165d7\" title=\"How war in Taiwan could mean the wheels come off the UK economy\" \/>Microchips are an issue, of course, but China also makes the alloy wheels our cars mostly roll on. And what about TikTok? We look at ways a conflict might inflict yet more harm on our struggling businesses<br \/>\nAs the world struggles with the economic fallout from the Ukraine war, fears are mounting about a conflict that would be even more consequential: a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.<br \/>\nLast week, Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister said he was preparing for the possibility of a conflict with China in 2027, and a leaked memo from a four-star US general said his \u201cgut\u201d told him the US \u2013 which is committed to defending Taiwan \u2013 would be at war with China in 2025. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microchips are an issue, of course, but China also makes the alloy wheels our cars mostly roll on. And what about TikTok? We look at ways a conflict might inflict yet more harm on our struggling businesses As the world struggles with the economic fallout from the Ukraine war, fears are mounting about a conflict &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/how-war-in-taiwan-could-mean-the-wheels-come-off-the-uk-economy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How war in Taiwan could mean the wheels come off the UK economy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}