Marco Rubio just said it plainly: a war between the US and China, quote, "would be catastrophic for both countries and the world." 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Economists at Bloomberg modeled what a war over Taiwan specifically would cost, and landed on a number that's hard to even picture: 10.6 trillion dollars, wiped out globally, in the first year alone. That's larger than the hit from COVID and the 2008 financial crisis combined. Here's why it's so extreme. Taiwan alone produces about 70 percent of the world's advanced computer chips. The companies that depend on those chips, including Nvidia and Apple, are worth close to 14 trillion dollars combined. War would cut that supply off almost instantly. That single chokepoint touches nearly everything: phones, cars, laptops, AI data centers, medical devices. Both countries are nuclear powers. Any direct military clash carries a real, if still small, risk of escalating into something far beyond a regional war, which is exactly why officials on both sides keep trying so hard to avoid one.(Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial)