Mutually assured destruction works every time.
Political considerations come first to communists, economic considerations are secondary.
This to be the most effeminate geopolitical policy position ever recommended.
Trump got Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to agree to build a manufacturing plant in Arizona in light of the Chinese invasion threat. I wonder if the Xao Bai-Ding regime has stonewalled it?
As a matter of “face”, any invasion will be completed.
seems plausible and acceptable. It’s a small island and not difficult to destroy assets. Unlike the end of WW2 in germany where there are just too many Nazi stuff to destroy that the Allies just got what they wanted.
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China’s motivation is NOT grabbing semiconductor factories. I think everyone realizes that these are both capital and intellectual intensive industries, which would likely be damaged (or sabotaged) during a war, managers and technicians would scatter, and there would be an embargo on parts and equipment.
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.
There’s also some strategic benefit, in that China’s Navy/submarines is also hemmed-in by US Bases and allies in shallow water operating areas. At present, its difficult/impossible for them to get into deep-water without being constrained and detected
They won’t do it. In their view, at least they would have jobs should they fail to hold off an invasion. Plus, they would also at least be able to speak the invaders’ language.
And hey, it’s not enough for them to declare independence as a country. But they’re more than willing to have Americans fight and die for their hegemony over the region.
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.
Chinese will just rebuild them.
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.
now, that would affect me a hole lot .
One cruise missile gets through to the Three Gorges Dam and China is stopped dead in its tracks.
I’ve been saying this since day 1. Give the commies nothing. You are going to be destroyed and enslaved anyways. So destroy all semi conductor factory’s and building by controlled implosions and then ballistic missed attack Shanghai, Wuhan and 3 Gorge dam. Follow the Spartan way; Give them nothing, but take everything from them!
why not target 3 gorges support structures, block the spillways and let gravity and water take care of the rest. EMP the major cities and just give the Vietnamese, Taiwan, Korea, Phillipines and India as much ammo, equipment that they can handle.