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Options listed in article: - direct military invasion - disinformation campaign - trade war with Taiwan - nationalization of old fabs in China - missile st
by riku_iki 6y ago
Options listed in article:
- direct military invasion
- disinformation campaign
- trade war with Taiwan
- nationalization of old fabs in China
- missile strikes on TSMC facilities in Taiwan
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago- Encouraging NK to start the missile rain towards SK (bye bye Samsung)
- joshuaissac 6y agoThat does not really help China.
- mywittyname 6y agoIt provides cover. Between that, and racial tensions in the US, the US military will have their hands full.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoI wrote that in reply to - missile strikes on TSMC facilities in Taiwan Wouldn't that be all out war? Then why stopping half way? If the goal is denial/disruption of chip production.
- jariel 6y agoThose are not really 'options' because they have existential consequences. 'Missiles'? Really? Anyone can theoretically use 'missiles' to knock out the production capacity of some competitor's fabs. It would be fatal to China's ambitions in everything because the world's reaction would be quite strong. China has a lot of people upset around the world, but a lot of voices are muted because of perceived repercussions, but something 'over the top' would encourage all of those voices to come out at once. Even Russia would have to 'think again' about their relationship.
- riku_iki 6y agoActually Iran used missiles strikes against Saudi Arabia oil facilities very recently as an argument in negotiation. No strong world reaction.
- ardy42 6y ago> Actually Iran used missiles strikes against Saudi Arabia oil facilities very recently as an argument in negotiation. No strong world reaction. But didn't they do so through proxies, which gives them at least a little deniability?
- riku_iki 6y agoThey said it was proxies, but many signs say they executed attack themself.
- selectodude 6y agoThe US executed Iran’s top general three months later. While it wasn’t directly related, I would be stunned if it wasn’t at all related.
- microcolonel 6y ago> 'Missiles'? Really? Anyone can theoretically use 'missiles' to knock out the production capacity of some competitor's fabs. Yeah but PRC would totally do it. They already gave the go-ahead to their allies to attack U.S. partners with missiles, a first-party strike is really not hard to imagine.
- Synaesthesia 6y agoLooking at history and the strategic positioning of the forces I’d say the US is more likely to strike first.
- akoster 6y agoYou make a point but what I think the author is alluding to the fact that the US and allies have countered Chinese military actions (building bases in international territory) with words. If that track record holds, we may also use words to counter a missile strike on a TSMC fab.