China does seem to be on a course where it will stop at nothing to achieve greater (total?) dominance of the planet. Currently we seem to be, just, containing it but I cannot see what we can do to persuade it to curtail its geopolitical ambitions.
My understanding is that the Taiwan semiconductor companies house the majority of the world's capability to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors (sub 20nm) and if a large chunk of this capability is either destroyed during invasion or falls under Chinese control it will have a massive effect upon world economies and the availability of goods. And, keep in mind, semiconductor manufacturing facilities are not something which can be built in a short time, it could take 10+ years to get one up and running.
Interesting times.
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Nearly all countries have spies and espionage. However, the threat to Taiwan from China is probably why some major Taiwanese companies are building factories in the USA.
Yes and Taiwan has been aware of the danger it is in for a long time. I was lucky enough to do a tour of Taiwan in the mid 80's and I had been in Taipei for a couple of days before I started to noticed the camouflaged machine gun emplacements along some of their main streets. Landy
-- Edited by landy on Thursday 7th of July 2022 06:22:33 PM
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Why would China destroy a semiconductor plant?
Keep it operating would be a better idea.
After all any manner of coding can be put into each chip, eg. a kill switch, a location beacon, pirate any technologies etc. Just about anything the Chinese government owners could ask for.
