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They'll have to invade Taiwan while agent Orange is still on his throne, to be confident that the US will allow it. A few overvalued property purchases should do it.
The US doesn't exactly have the capacity to stop China from taking an island like 200 miles off their coast. They have been designing their entire military around this exact conflict for 75 years and have an entire branch if their military dedicated to missiles.
We do have the capacity to make it more expensive to invade than to simple peacefully reunify at an indeterminate time in the future, when the US is hopelessly behind and the PRC can offer an infinitely better deal (so good you can't refuse).
The only way the equation changes is if "eventual" peaceful reunification is ever off the table, or there's political instability that might cause the prc to be welcomed.
And he won't be on his throne in 2030 because... because what exactly?
Hopefully he dies before the end of this term
...ide be happy with the end of the day if that's at all possible
Won't be nearly that long.
Bet on it.
You folks realize if China takes Taiwan, then the US is extremely fucked. They are going to get oil in Venezuela when we really need lithium and semiconductors. What a stupid move!
If you're a living dinosaur whose best pedo-buddies own oil companies and you don't know anything about those pesky computers, this will seems like the best move you've ever made.
Don't forget that trump totally saved the chip industry in USA, for realsies, so there's nothing that Taiwan does that 'murica doesn't do better anyway!!!!
We have domestic sources of both in the US. This has been a long development process for a compromise between the US and China. However, TSMC is reliant on ASML for photolithography tech, so there is a two part effective monopoly in that supply chain, controlled by the Netherlands and Taiwan (and by proxy whoever influences the market destinations for that equipment). China could take Taiwan, but it would essentially only be capturing what would at that point be old tech.
Are you saying because the new tech requires the multi laser interference to create parts smaller than the UV wave length? I'm a bit out of the loop in photolithography developments for the last 10 years.
And TSMC is rigged for scuttling, China would get rubble if the invasion isn't near instant
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