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a) Ukraine situation has shown that a clean, Hong Kong style takeover of Taiwan is increasingly unlikely. Europe has irrevocably changed and is far more hawkish
by threeseed 5y ago
a) Ukraine situation has shown that a clean, Hong Kong style takeover of Taiwan is increasingly unlikely. Europe has irrevocably changed and is far more hawkish and willing to join the US in economic coercion which China will struggle to defend against. And AUKUS, Quad, AU-JP-UK-US etc are solidifying and unifying opposition in ways never even imagined a few years ago.
b) Intel spun up their Foundry Services division specifically to manufacture chips for Apple, Amazon, Microsoft etc.
- butlerm 5y agoA Hong Kong style takeover of Taiwan would never happen unless a supermajority of the Taiwanese wanted to give their country away to a totalitarian genocidal police state. Where is the upside?