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China is invading Taiwan because of misguided nationalistic pride and internal legitimacy, not to gain TSMC. If possible, Taiwan should keep TSMC so that the W

China is invading Taiwan because of misguided nationalistic pride and internal legitimacy, not to gain TSMC. If possible, Taiwan should keep TSMC so that the West has a reason to defend Taiwan.

krona 4y ago
Taiwan would be destroyed in an invasion, TSMC along with it. China would then have a de-facto monopoly on semiconductor manufacturing. This is why the manufacturing needs to diversify geographically.
- FooBarWidget 4y ago
  Isn't Samsung also pretty close?
  - mantas 4y ago
    And South Korea is pretty close to China as well...
    - FooBarWidget 4y ago
      China's relationship with South Korea is fundamentally different from China's relationship with Taiwan.
      - arroz 4y ago
        South Korea is pretty close to North Korea which although much more unlikely could happen too
  - arroz 4y ago
    Samsung technology is used mainly for memories. Why? No idea. In any case, people would have to migrate their workflows which would take time, and then manufacture there. This would cause huge delays / price spikes There are other chip manufactures in the world too if people are willing to buy outdated technology (like 10 years in the past) Also intel is investing a lot in manufacturing technology, it plans to be better than TSMC by 2025 iirc. Will it happen? No idea, but they are working toward this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US government were financing this in some way
mantas 4y ago
More like communistic pride that opposing force is still doing well. Taiwan's KMT was the original nationalist party in China.
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thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
It goes both ways - China claims Taiwan as theirs, but also Taiwan claims China as theirs Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war
- CogitoCogito 4y ago
  > Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war Your wording is a bit vague, but it sounds like you have it backwards. Taiwan's dropping of claims to the mainland may trigger a _Chinese_ declaration of war. That comes from certain interpretations of article 8 of the China's Anti-Secession law. Of course China doesn't actually have to declare war in this situation if they don't want to. They could always interpret it differently or they could simply ignore it (China's laws guarantee free speech after all and they certainly don't seem to have trouble getting around that).

China is invading Taiwan because of misguided nationalistic pride and internal legitimacy, not to gain TSMC. If possible, Taiwan should keep TSMC so that the West has a reason to defend Taiwan.

krona 4y ago

Taiwan would be destroyed in an invasion, TSMC along with it. China would then have a de-facto monopoly on semiconductor manufacturing. This is why the manufacturing needs to diversify geographically.

FooBarWidget 4y ago
Isn't Samsung also pretty close?
- mantas 4y ago
  And South Korea is pretty close to China as well...
  - FooBarWidget 4y ago
    China's relationship with South Korea is fundamentally different from China's relationship with Taiwan.
    - arroz 4y ago
      South Korea is pretty close to North Korea which although much more unlikely could happen too
- arroz 4y ago
  Samsung technology is used mainly for memories. Why? No idea. In any case, people would have to migrate their workflows which would take time, and then manufacture there. This would cause huge delays / price spikes There are other chip manufactures in the world too if people are willing to buy outdated technology (like 10 years in the past) Also intel is investing a lot in manufacturing technology, it plans to be better than TSMC by 2025 iirc. Will it happen? No idea, but they are working toward this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US government were financing this in some way

mantas 4y ago

More like communistic pride that opposing force is still doing well. Taiwan's KMT was the original nationalist party in China.

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thow-58d4e8b 4y ago

It goes both ways - China claims Taiwan as theirs, but also Taiwan claims China as theirs Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war

CogitoCogito 4y ago
> Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war Your wording is a bit vague, but it sounds like you have it backwards. Taiwan's dropping of claims to the mainland may trigger a _Chinese_ declaration of war. That comes from certain interpretations of article 8 of the China's Anti-Secession law. Of course China doesn't actually have to declare war in this situation if they don't want to. They could always interpret it differently or they could simply ignore it (China's laws guarantee free speech after all and they certainly don't seem to have trouble getting around that).