Hahahaha oh brilliant move.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The US is scared of the impending doom created when China invades Taiwan and takes over all chip production in a matter of a few months.

Nothing the US has can stop that when it starts, there can only be a deterrent, but that works only so far...

On the other hand it sees a solution to just hamfistedly claim 50% of the chipproduction to be local in the USA, easily forgetting the work ethics of the average American don't fit for that scenario, let alone how the government is wrecking the needed education for a decade or two to come at least...

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    First of all the fabs are among the most complex projects in the world and the Taiwanese will just blow them up. China can do nothing about that. The workforce of those fabs will also try their best to move abroad. That is also why the US is building those fabs, so they can just have the Taiwanese work in those fabs.

    Also Taiwan is a nightmare to invade. It is obviously an island, so you need to ship over the soldiers. We have seen in Ukraine, how fairly cheap seadrones can destroy ships and this is going to happen to China as well. Then Taiwan itself is either densly populated meaning urban warfare, which is really bad or it is a bunch of densly forested mountains, which might be even worse. Add to that sanctions and very likely problems with shipping and this is an insanely expensive thing to do. No amount of chip production is going to save China in that case.

    Invading Taiwan is a very dumb idea indeed. I hope China is smart enough to not go for that.

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