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Is this imperialism by China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing? Leftists are normally anti-imperialism. Wouldn't it be better to let Taiwan democratically decide whether they want to be part of China or not?

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't really see how this is any different than 50 or 20 years ago, they're just stating their geopolitical stance.

More to the point, as others have mentioned, it would be exceedingly difficult to invade Taiwan and capture their fabs intact.

Actually it wouldn't even matter if they captured them intact because the US could just eliminate the supply line, making it unideal for production to continue for several years.

And unlike Ukraine, the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately.

China's only benefit would be the elimination of the world's primary chip manufacturing, and unrestricted access to the Pacific ocean.

I only see them doing it after they've achieved complete independence from Taiwan's fabs in their own supply chain.

[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately

Assuming Trump is rational. I'm not sure if he is.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

And pax silica will lessen the geopolitical fallout by ensuring there is fab redundancy outside of Taiwan.