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Article 2: Sovereignty – The Key To Become An Economic Powerhouse

Geopolitical neutrality and national sovereignty guaranteed by the armed forces – way for Brazil as an economic powerhouse

One new consideration: Taiwan (台灣), also known, especially in the past, as Formosa (from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, “Beautiful Island”) is an island of East Asia managed by Republic of China, however, in 1988, Taiwan accelerated the opening of its regime, under command of Lee Teng-hui, independent of the Chinese Communist Party authorization. Taiwan rushed its democratization with presidential elections, won by Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in 1992. China, concerned about these events, suggested the unification under the formula “one country, two systems” (communism and capitalism) – the same adopted in Hong Kong – but it was refused by the Taiwanese government.

In March 1996, just before the first direct presidential election in the country, China conducted military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait. The United States sent two aircraft carriers to the region to protect the country. Taiwanese economy grew fast, attracting new international investment and attention from the Chinese government. Even not recognizing officially the Taiwanese regime, the United States began to provide military power, trying to protect it from a possible Chinese invasion. In 1992, based on this policy, the United States provided Taiwan one hundred fifty F-16 fighters. Currently, there are over two hundred F-16 in service on the country’s air force. In 1993, Taiwan bought from France, sixty Mirage 2000 and six frigates. The issue comes back in August 2001, when Washington approved the sale to Taiwan of a package of sophisticated weaponry that included four destroyers, Orion aircrafts (for detecting submarines) and eight diesel submarines. Also, the Taiwanese industry AIDC developed the Ching Kuo fighter, starting from 1982, with strong support from the U.S. Company, General Dynamics, developer of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, in order to replace the Northrop F-5E fighters. The Ching Kuo entered service in 2000, with 130 to the Taiwan Air Force.

Increasing its military power, it can be realized that Taiwan possibly prevented any possible Chinese attempt of invasion. So, hypothetically looking for its sovereignty through military and economic growth, Taiwan gained strength in the geopolitical scene, even as non recognized nation by UN.

But even with the rearmament of its armed forces, Taiwan is still extremely fragile against Chinese military power. Trying to inhibit a possible invasion from China, Taiwan became dependent of its weaponry suppliers, United States and France, for military support. What is the price this nation has to pay for its dependence on French and American armed forces to supply military equipment and its own defense?It is very complex to measure the geopolitical cost of this support, because any decision of Taiwan government that displeases those aligned nations means a direct threat to Taiwanese sovereignty; since possible sanctions, whether economic, political or military, would represent an opportunity for China to regain the island control.

When such countries as Kuwait and Taiwan become military dependent on a powerful nation, in order to guarantee their sovereignty, they end up being restricted to the rules imposed by their defender.

Make war is not the only purpose of military power. A military powerhouse has the capacity to ensure full sovereignty to the nation’s people. The strength allows a country to be able to guarantee its economic interests in the geopolitical scene and in the world economic community.

The next article will evaluate Brazil as an economic and military powerhouse.

Fernando Arbache

Fernando Arbache

Mestre em Engenharia Industrial PUC/Rio. Independent Education Consultant working with MIT Professional Education. Graduado em Engenharia Civil, UFJF. Data and Models in Engineering, Science, and Business/MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA). Challenges of Leadership in Teams/MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA). Data Science: Data to Insights/MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA). AnyLogic Advanced Program of Simulation Modeling/Hampton, NJ (USA). Experiência Acadêmica: Educational Consultant working with MIT. Instructor in Digital Courses at MIT Professional Education in Digital Transformation and Leadership in Innovation. Atuou cimo coordenador da FGV em cursos de Gestão. Atuou como professor FGV, nas cadeiras e Logística, Estatística, Gestão de Riscos e Sistemas de Informação. Professor da HSM Educação, IBMEC e FATEC. Livros escritos: ARBACHE, F. Gestão da Logística, Distribuição e Trade Marketing. São Paulo: Ed. FGV, 2004. ARBACHE, F. Logística Empresarial. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Petrobras, 2005. ARBACHE, A. P. e ARBACHE, F. Sustentabilidade Empresarial no Brasil: Cenários e Projetos. São José do Rio Preto- SP: Raízes Gráfica e Editora, 2012. Pesquisa: Desenvolvimento de modelos de mapeamento de Competências Comportamentais e Técnicas, por meio de gamificação com uso de Inteligência Artificial, utilizando Deep Learning e Machine Learning (http://www.arbache.com/mobi). Programa de Inovação com 75 cooperativas de diversas áreas de atuação e aproximadamente 500 participantes, com Kick-off no MIT PE (http://www.arbache.com/inovacoop). Desenvolvimento de Inteligências nos dados e métricas - Big data e precisão nas tomadas de decisões na gestão de pessoas. Experiência Profissional: CIO (Chief Innovations Officer) da empresa Arbache Innovations especializada em simulação, inovação com foro em HRTech e EduTech – empresa premiada no programa Conecta (http://conecta.cnt.org.br) como uma das 5 entre 500 startups mais inovadoras da América Latina. Acelerada pela Plug&Play (https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com) em Sunnyvale, CA – Vale do Silício entre novembro e dezembro de 2018. Desenvolvimento de parceria com o MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology para cursos presenciais e digitais – http://www.arbache.com/mitpe, https://professional.mit.edu/programs/digital-plus-programs/who-we-work & https://professional.mit.edu/programs/international-programs/who-we-work

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