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Is the talent here/there?

They're working with the Japanese, so I think there will be good results.

People forget how in the 80s Intel pivoted from making memory to microprocessors specifically because the Japanese were eating their lunch.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/business/japan-s-big-lead...

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-05-06-IBM-Unveils-Worlds-First...

Tech is there not scale.

Having worked with IBM in the past, I can't fully trust their press releases...

Why not just import 10 million Taiwanese into America?

That would be great, suddenly everyone is happy:

China got the island because no one lives there

US got talents

Taiwan can have freedom

US would lose a strategic bridgehead, so it’s not going to ever happen.

Hah? Bridge head to what? Contain China?

Any kind of military action. To US, Taiwan is a “stone aircraft carrier group”.

Where would they live? isn't any place with remotely similar climate and geography to what you see in Taiwan is already overpopulated in the US?

Where in the US, outside of less than a handful of large urban centers, is overpopulated?

It's not a very densely populated country, with density of 33.6/km².

Compare that to Taiwan at 650/km².

New York City is 778.2/km².

10M Taiwanese don't want to live in some desert wasteland. All the desireable places are already full of people.

On top of that, America's politics are horribly toxic and the country is about to become a Christian fascist dictatorship that resembles the Handmaid's Tale. Why would they want to move there?

Lol. They are not plants or animals that need a particular habitat...

Totally agree. Taiwanese immigration should be made as easy as possible. Create special tax benefits for people with semiconductor experience to come over and help relaunch the industry in the US. Tax breaks, citizenship, family benefits should all be on the table. I really can't think of a downside.

Just do it based on merit. Doing it based on country makes no sense.

Consider it from Taiwan's point of view. Through hard work and a bit of luck they created a world-class golden goose industry that literally outcompetes everyone else. And then their biggest ally (or the country they thought were their biggest ally) decides to hire the talents away and gut their industry, because it's "too important to be in Taiwan."

You joke but that could become a reality. China is looking at Ukraine currently and saw how Hong Kong was easily forgotten about in the media.

It was forgotten by media, because said media eventually got back in sync with reality. Which by is to say, personally I’d trust citizens more than western narratives about them.

And the last one should flip the self-destruct switch on the TSMC plant.

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