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The Taiwan Catastrophe: What the World Would Lose If China Took the Island
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- more_corn 3y agoWhat a fantastically detailed piece. Remember when there was a fire on the tsmc line and it fucked auto manufacturing for months right when demand recovered after the pandemic driving the cost of new cars through the roof? Image that 100x, also with a deadline (China promised to invade Taiwan within 3 years). If I were a hedge fund…
- euroderf 3y agoIt's kinda fascinating that all-of-a-suddenly Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan are lumped together into a troika for quick aid infusions from the US. I mean, it makes sense politically, and it's a logical extension of all US foreign policy that has come before it, but to see it suddenly coalesce into a shiny new item at the very top of the foreign policy agenda is... unexpected.