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[–] ExFed@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there's far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

It looks like China is only a couple years away from building completely in-country fabs competitive with Taiwan. If that's the case, then Taiwan using the economic value of their microchip fabs as a defense may very soon come to an end.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

The biggest defense for Taiwan is the fact that it's an island. I don't thing that's going to change any time soon.

Ukraine's Sea Baby drones have been remarkably effective in the Black Sea. I don't see why they wouldn't be effective in the Taiwan Straight and I feel like Taiwan has the capability of mass producing similar drone boats.

Yes China has massive troop counts, but it doesn't amount to much if those numbers can't get across the Strait.