why would china invade china lmao

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    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Do you seriously think that if Russia had waited for Ukraine to invade Donbass, libs would say “actually it’s Ukraine’s fault”? No, Ukraine could launch a full scale amphibious D-Day assault on Crimea and libs will still cheer on them to take back their land.

      The vast majority of libs have never heard of Donbass before. Might as well talk to them about Candyland for all it matters

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Plus the ones who do know about Donbass think that the Russians invaded in 2014 and that all the fighting in Donbas has been done by Russian troops pretending not to be Russian troops. They also think that Russia invaded Crimea and is occupying it using force, instead of just, like... swapping the flags because everyone in Crimea is already Russian.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      evacuating the TSMC specialists just means they handicap everyone involved. wafer fab is a very complicated process and if any cog is missing you gotta do a lot of training and fixing to replace that cog. and its not like you can just copy paste them onto some new site. new equipment means new training. many years of delay, potentially decades, will be the case

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          tbf the soviets did have some amazing spies (turns out communism is a good motivator when you live in a capitalist hellhole) that fed the designs to them. so they got parallel research out of it

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            If you believe the popular media of a few years ago China has root access to every network in America and knows everything that every tech company has done for the last ten years. And to that I say "Well done chaps!"

    • edge [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      they already have plans to evacuate all the TSMC specialists to the US and to sabotage whatever’s left in Taiwan to make sure China cannot gain access to their semiconductor technology

      When your country exists just to be a semiconductor factory.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            Its been operating as a satrap of the American empire, on par with SK, Japan, and the Philippines.

            But it isn't soveign in any practical sense. Taiwan can't exist independent of the mainland. They're not Cuba or North Korea.

          • userse31 [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Its been a giant "mess on the carpet" for 70+ years.