re: Why should I care what happens to Taiwan?

Do you think the swamp would go against China if they try to take over Taiwan? I really don't think they would. China is their daddy.

You can kiss every single electronic you might consider purchasing of all industries if something happens to Taiwan.

An attack on Taiwan would hurt us more than an attack on some US cities.

Mediatek, TSMC, etc.

You think there is a shortage on automobiles and other chip dependant items? You just wait.

Every iPhone, most android devices, every random connected device you have? All with chips from one of those two companies.

I say this as someone who thinks that not a single American should get a paper cut filing paper work over the Ukraine situation.

Taiwan is very different. Ukraine is third world crap hole with no value to us other than money laundering for politicians.

Taiwanese companies run the world we all know and love.


Even if China didn't outright destroy that infrastructure or those companies. The CCP seizing control of them means they could start mandating secret backdoors in ALL electronics destined for the US.

The same reason our beloved Orange Man banned Huawei 5G tech.

Ukraine is one of the largest wheat exporters in the world. Russia is one of the largest O&G exporters. Look at what the war did to disrupt the economy.

China-Taiwan would be infintely wore

All of our semiconductors come from Taiwan. A critical component of literally every electronic device and new vehicle would be controlled completely by the Chinese Communist party.

It would turn the entire world upside down, and even for China, it would be economic suicide. The world would turn into chaos, and I don’t really want to be around for that. Humans don’t think clearly when there’s chaos. The Chinese love to make money, and let’s hope their love more money, outweighs their political ideologies.

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Isn't conflict with China economic suicide? Can't they just dump dollars?

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China taking over Taiwan would be economically murdering the US

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Would it be cheaper, and easier, to establish that manufacturing in the US rather than engage in a war?

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Do you think Taiwan's supremacy in chip manufacturing is anything but earned?

In order for the US to absorb this successfully, they would have to move the Taiwanese to the US

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Chips

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Yes. Chips are 1A.
Strategic military positioning is 1B. With Taiwan being friendly it basically gives the US the ability to shut down the China sea shipping lanes and blockade China if necessary.

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Thanks. Would it be cheaper, and easier, to establish that manufacturing in the US rather than engage in a war?

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probably not. they do have some foundries in the US, in fact there is one about 15 miles from where i live, but they dont manufacture the advanced chips. I dont see the Taiwanese government allowing TMSC to move their vital chip production anywhere else, because then no one would have any incentive to protect Taiwan from CCP, plus its a huge part of their domestic workforce that would be made unemployed.

There is also an issue of shipping lanes. People think that the sky is big but airlines tend to use the same lanes just like we drive highways.
The same is true about oceans. They're big but most shipping occurs in the same lanes. If China took Taiwan and turned it into a naval base they could extort money from countries that want to use their Pacific Ocean.