Posted on 01/06/2022 11:29:46 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
Destroying the world’s major semiconductor market might be more of an invasion deterrent than actual open conflict, military paper suggests;
Taiwan should adopt a ‘scorched earth policy’ and wipe out its own semiconductor foundries in the wake of any Chinese invasion as a deterrent, US military academics have suggested.
First spotted by Nikkei, a paper in the US Army War College’s quarterly academic journal Parameters suggests the US and Taiwan can detour Chinese invasion of the island by creating a ‘deterrence by punishment approach via a legitimate and credible threat' to destroy the country’s own chip fabs if invaded.
The authors argue that in the face of China’s growing military power & sophistication, threats or demonstrations from US military are unlikely to work, and any actual conflict on the island may actually be won by the People’s Republic of China.
Instead, the paper, Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan, suggests a “broken nest” approach wherein Taiwan destroys its own semiconductor industry – including global chip powerhouse TSMC – upon the news of any invasion from China to make it a less attractive target and scupper China’s own technology ambitions.
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Advanced semiconductor factories are no trivial thing to “put up” with many trade secrets are involved.
Even the Taiwanese cannot fully operate them without American consultation and our engineers constantly flying out there.
A Taiwan Chip maker is building a plant in Texas right now. Obviously, the answer is to move the factories to Texas, with the employees and their families. There’s only 25 million peoplei in Taiwan to begin with; the obviousl solution is to begin the evacuation now rather than waiting for the shooting to start.
Taiwan should explore building nuclear weapons.
Chinese will just rebuild them.
Do you know how long it takes to build an advanced, bleeding edge fab?
What technology it takes?
And how much it costs?
There’s a reason such chip fabs are in Taiwan and not China.
If China could build one, they’d have one.
“Political considerations come first to communists, economic considerations are secondary.”
That is true and a corollary of that is even when making economic decisions for economic reasons there is a political agenda behind it. The CCP has spurred the economic growth in China but contrary to western myths the state has not been liberalized in the political sense and the greater power of the economy has been put to use enhancing state control and its ability to maintain control. The economy of China is a power wielded by and for the CCP, in spite of the obvious material improvements that has also brought to most mainland Chinese.
American analysts suggesting what another country should do in an existential crisis seems a little “presumptive,.”
I understand the reasoning. But the gun is not pointed at my head.
China’s motivation for grabbing Taiwan has always been ideological and historical - That Taiwan belongs to China is propagandized into every Chinese citizen, every day.
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Historical?
Ideological, moe likely.
Look up the history of Formosa(Taiwan).
A few other countries controlled Taiwan(Formosa) for centuries. The Japanese controlled Formosa from the 19th century until 1945 at the end of World War II. The Nationalist Chinese (The Rupublic of China) then gained control, and kept it, moving their government to the island in 1948, after the Communist took over the mainland. Just as other nations did after German occupation during WWII (governments in exile).
The Republic of China, an original signatory to the UN Charter in 1945, and its predicesor in 1942, held a seat on the UN Security Council until the autumn of 1971, when the Communist Chinese by vote of the General Assembly of the UN took over the seat inthe General Assembly and the Security Council.
So between 1945 and 1948, The Republic of China ruled all of China, including Formosa, which they had gained as a result of WWII. They then withdrew and have existed as a separate country on the island of Formosa, since.
Absolutely correct. If a bully is trying to take your lunchbox, you don't destroy your lunchbox - you kick him in the nuts and make him hurt.
In the case of semiconductors, the plant is important..along with the knowledge.
The semiconductors made in that plant are evidently a lot better than those made in China.
So, if China was invading for the chips the plant would be important. I think the chips would be a partial reason.
I think the strategic location of the Island is more important. If China doesn’t hold it, it could be a base right off their mainland for Chinese enemies.
If China held the island, it would be able to project power outward over the sea lanes in, out, and around China.
None of this bodes well for people trying to build a life on the island.
Until the other guy doesn’t care.
now, that would affect me a hole lot .
And then their new communist overlords will force them into slave labor re-building the facilities.
They’ll send Lebron over to give the slaves a motivational speech and they will all clap...or be shot.
They’ll have Communists overlords either way.
If they had the expertise to rebuild them they'd just build their own right now.
...W.I.S.H.F.U.L...T.H.I.N.K.I.N.G...
At the same time destroy 3 gorges dam.
One cruise missile gets through to the Three Gorges Dam and China is stopped dead in its tracks.
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