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It's an awesome contingency. If the island falls, they can destroy/impair the local infrastructure, and reconstitute it in the US. Destroy in this context does
by Hilift 2y ago
It's an awesome contingency. If the island falls, they can destroy/impair the local infrastructure, and reconstitute it in the US. Destroy in this context does not mean mass physical destruction. It is a combination of removal of keys and select components. The message being you can have the island but not the business.
- wbl 2y agoAnd? Advanced nodes aren't really relevant to subtracting where it is from where it isn't. China is ideologically motivated to conquer Taiwan not economically.
- User23 2y agoI think it’s probably a case of both? In any event it appears that reunification is essentially inevitable and the only question is when. China doesn’t appear to feel especial urgency about it.
- wbl 2y agoIt isn't inevitable: the US is committed to defending Taiwan as is Japan and nobody really likes Chinese expansion in the neighborhood.