Here is another headline, The world relies on two chip marker in South Korea for NAND and DRAM, leaving Everyone Vulnerable.
Although arguably NAND and DRAM are commodities, and US already has a back up strategy ( Micron ).
Although arguably NAND and DRAM are commodities, and US already has a back up strategy ( Micron ).
https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs/article/14039015/how-d...
And China has about as much right to govern Taiwan as the Habsburg-Lothringen dynasty to govern Czechia.
But you do not seem to deny that China acts in a hostile way towards Taiwan. You switched to "someone else has a dirty conscience too" defense.
"you do not seem to deny that ...", I didn't deny it immediately since it's a bit far fetched to argue comparing to the previous paragraph, we even bombed a small island with no people for twenty years(keyword: Second Taiwan Strait Crisis), but that's history, does Xi want Taiwan back? of course, does Xi want to go down as a tyrant? of course not, look at history, we got HK and Macau back, peacefully, remember that.
On the other hand, recently, Taiwan government refused vaccines from China, I think they really went too far.
But what make you think China will "cut off the world" IF that happens?
That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.
But we're not talking about a corporate takeover. We're talking about a naval invasion of a very densely populated and well defended island. That might involve heavy artillery bombardment and prolonged urban combat, maybe a guerilla war and sabotage actions.
There is no guarantee that the fabs are still operational after all that.
I mean, we're on different political sides, not good vs evil, please acknowledge that.
One of the sides runs a series of concentration camps. Sells organs from political prisoners, etc.
But yes, I suppose it's just politics. Personally, I think genocide is slightly evil, but feel free to disagree.
If, I mean If, China is evil, wouldn't that make any country not declaring war to China evil too?
Independent media across the globe and across political spectrums have reported that China has locked away >= 1M people in concentration camps.
Claiming that the Uyghur genocide is made up is just trolling. These things have been documented for years.
And the Uyghur is not the only minority to be persecuted.
Tell me who is the Dalai Lama working for?
> wouldn't that make any country not declaring war to China evil too?
I think you'll have to ask a philosopher, if evil is a transitive property :)
But my two cents is
(1) NO!
(2) War is not the solution.
Honestly, war is very rarely a good solution. Sanctions a political pressure might be better tools.
"Independent media"
The CCP and Xi in particular have turned "reunification" into a matter of national and personal pride.
More substantially, they see Taiwanese independance as a threat because it could serve as an example to independance movements in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and probably a few more.
And what's wrong with national pride? And in what way do you think waging a war could boost pride? I thought we learnt that after two WWs. You might want to check China's current economy and civilian living status, we are not like some middle east country with nothing to lose, no offense.
An actual peaceful reunification is just not going to happen anytime soon, especially given how things are developing in Hong Kong. And if it involves the military, it's conquest, not a reunification.
> And what's wrong with national pride?
It is all too easily used by populists to gather support based on an "us vs them" mindset. And (like personal pride) it can compel you to do self-destructive things to avoid losing face.
> And in what way do you think waging a war could boost pride?
"We beat them, so we're better than them". Dumb, but people do think like that.
> You might want to check China's current economy and civilian living status, we are not like some middle east country with nothing to lose, no offense.
Then why all the fuss about Taiwan?
A truly great nation could say "look, how about you strike down that silly idea about retaking the mainland, give back our national treasures, and in return we'll reconize you as an independant country?"
That's your speculation, are we at war now?
What fuss about Taiwan? we always declare Taiwan is part of China.
By all means what you're saying is "this man wants war, let's fight him".
> "We beat them, so we're better than them". Dumb, but people do think like that.
Maybe because you think like that and assumes people are like you.
A conditional statement is not speculation. Also:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/12/largest-chines...
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210105-taiwan-says-c...
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-military-buildup-atti...
> What fuss about Taiwan? we always declare Taiwan is part of China.
Status quo is that it's not part of China, and hasn't been for well over 100 years. This doesn't hurt China in any way. So why not simply accept that status quo?
> By all means what you're saying is "this man wants war, let's fight him".
I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
> Maybe because you think like that and assumes people are like you.
Quite exactly the opposite.
But I guess you've just arrived at the point where you can't argue your position in good faith anymore.
You think leading US chip designers would send their designs to China?
The well organized state of industrial espionage by China, is a pretty good reason this won't happen.
Furthermore, the rest of the world would be forced to embargo anything related to Taiwan.
The reason advanced chip factories are located in China is that they are expensive and Chinese authorities can't be trusted.
Adding to that is that sending your chip designs to China, is a sure way to get them stolen.
Lots of companies don't sell the latest tech in China. And don't manufacture in china because their designs would be stolen. This is not a problem for cheap manufacturing, but for high tech stuff it might be...