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Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech
(www.theguardian.com)
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I hope the EU and nations in the Asian sphere decide to have a military alliance. Taiwan is pretty dang valuable, and also shouldn't be bullied for the sake of some strongman's wet dream.
So it's all about TSMC, the west doesn't give a shit about the people or the land.
Well, China only cares about the land. You can take TSMC from Taiwan.
That is dumb. TSMC is comprised of the world's foremost experts in chip technology. They are people, and probably would like to stay in their homeland. Furthermore, it takes at least a decade to build the infrastructure to create microchips, which requires extremely stable geology. A power outage or an earthquake can cause lithography machines to miss their target, ruining months of work.
TSMC is intrinsically tied to the land and people.
sure, that's why Taiwan is located on one of earth's most active earthquake regions
edit: bad cropping of image is not my fault, i found it like that on the internet and am to lazy to find another one
edit: here's another one
That wasn't my point.
The west only cares about TSMC and not the island or the common people of Taiwan. If Taiwan didn't have TSMC, the west wouldn't give two shits about the island.
And China only cares about Taiwan for the land and the image it projects of “reunifying China”. They don’t care about the people in Taiwan since a vast majority don’t want to be invaded by China.
Look at how well the Hong Kong “reunification” went.
Correct. If the people of Taiwan don't want to be part of China, they're free to leave, just like everyone else in China.
Ok tankie. Let me take over your house and if you don’t like me, you can leave.
What a clown.
Literally Israelis 🤣
But it's not the same comparison. False equivalence.
to where?
It's a right, you're not forced to leave.