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Taiwan should destroy chip infrastructure if China invades: paper

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29 pointsvisviva15 comments

If they are going to report on a paper, they could at least give a link, or properly cite it.

The paper is linked in the article. In the third paragraph, the words "the paper" link here:

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol51/iss4/4/

Americans advising Chinese people to run a scorched earth policy in their home. Yeah, doesn't surprise me at all. What would surprise me would be if Chinese were stupid enough to do it.

Taiwan is not the home of the People's Republic of China.

Taiwan is the home of Chinese people as is the PRC. Stop ideological quibbling that serves US interests. There is one China. Even the US acknowledges that.

There are Chinese people living all over the world. That doesn't make every country the home of the PRC.

The point you made is nonsensical because Taiwan is clearly an adversary of the PRC and the PRC has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan. Referring to both of those parties as "China" loses the nuance that explains the conflict.

Reminds me of one of the wall facer strategies. Dark Forest is such a great book.

seriously doubt people make such strategy have graduated kindergarten. it is the people in TSMC not the hardware that make the best chips.

china only needs to offer them better opportunity to work in mainland, it is happening at a fast rate.

Except that isn't true at all. TSMC doesn't make their own chips. They make other people's chips. The foundry is what matters, and not the people. It's at least a 10 billion dollar and decade long construction project to build a foundry. Not to mention the company that makes the lithography machines (160 million each) has about a 2 year lead time.

10 years is nothing for a nation state. China has trillions at its disposal.

But 10 years is an eternity in tech.

On top of that China already has chip foundries. No one uses them for anything important because they don't want their IP stolen.

Taiwan's value to China isn't TSMC, although it would be a bonus to take it.

The rest of the world however would lose a major asset. Which is why the US is starting to build new foundries.

There is no technology in which an eternal edge has been maintained. China has a billion people and trillions to throw at the problem. The laws of physics are the same for all. Once you know something works it’s only a matter of investing capital.

Yeah, culture and social contexts don't matter at all. People and and institutions that steal and lie and cheat will be able to innovate and develop at exactly the same rate and level of quality.

Those are all issues that can be resolved with time and money, so yes.

Bingo.

If anything, destroying the Taiwanese fabs would strengthen Chinese chip hegemony.

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