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Yes. Now connect the dots...

• gniv 3y ago
  Everybody connects the dots differently. I personally would like to see TSMC (and ASML, and Intel) help China achieve this goal. It's not all black and white. They can help without giving away all their secrets.
  • baranoff 3y ago
    But why do you want that?
• bee_rider 3y ago
  Getting Taiwan to join unwillingly, aka conquest, would probably end up killing the engineers that make those devices and destroying the factories. This is one of the advantages of a high-skill economy, the value is in the people, not the natural resources. So, they’ll have to convince Taiwan to join willingly. Which basically seems like fair game, I mean countries should be allowed to form unions and join together if they want. It also seems extremely unlikely to happen given their history. I’m under the impression that the main threat to Taiwan from China is more that China might do something basically irrational; the existence of Taiwan is sort of unfinished business from their point of view, and stoking the flames there is an easy way for politicians in China to appeal to nationalism. Anyway, as wildly dangerous as it all seems, everybody thankfully seems quietly devoted to not actually escalating it too far, thankfully.
• Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y ago
  All the more reasons to leave Taiwan intact. I hope so.