Taiwan is too important to be ditched by the U.S. The day China conquers Taiwan is the day the Americans firmly lose their global tech dominance.
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That's the case for submarines, not for ships. When a ship sinks, there's enough time for sailors to abandon it. The survival rate can be pretty high overall.
Anyway, there are not too many ships around for the casualties to skyrocket like it's the case for armies, where an entire divison can get annihilated overnight when up against a peer adversary.
All the technical know-how and high tech machinery for chip manufacturing is in Taiwan. The Chinese always have majority control on Lithium mines with Taiwan takeover they will be the dominant force in Semiconductor manufacturing. Which means smart munitions that will soon surpass the Americans..
Such comments came previously also. It shows their mindset but it's nowhere close to a declaration of a war-like situation.
We need to sit this out and prevent further losses. This a a good opportunity to improve the quality of our arms and boost local defence industry.
Forge strong partnerships with like-minded countries and yet be financially, technologically, resource-wise independent enough so that we are not forced into a compromise because of 'influence' from partners like US --- US did tell us to back off after 27 Feb and this should not happen.
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I wonder how the eventual takeover of Taiwan will be and what will be its repurcussions. If critical requirements like dependence of chip manufacturing in Taiwan are reduced, then will the US and the world forget about Taiwan thus enabling China to take over Taiwan without firing a shot?
Chinks want a pliant India, away from quads and in BRI. Till India holds back it will face this shit.
The other option is doing what China did to the USSR at the Zenbao island. Impose such costs on them and make them understand they cant beat India without a full blown war.
As I said government changes in India not in China. Now you can deduce what I am trying to say
If Taiwan can be sacrificed then add Japan and South Korea into list of next to be bullied and conquered by China. Even inept, woke and pusillanimous govt of Biden won't ever allow that.
That's usual script whenever a high GOI delegation visit AP. I don't think this has anything to do with current standoff
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It's a very weird situation, and it entirely depends on the US. If the US protects Taiwan, China won't attack Taiwan for a very long time. But if the US decides they are only going to watch, then China will most definitely invade, but will get stuck in a protracted guerilla war. At the very least, we know Taiwan is unlikely to go down without a fight since the Taiwanese military and political leadership know exactly what fate awaits them if they fall into the CCP's hands.
Xi wants to create a legacy in this third term, before he leaves office. He obviously can't challenge the Japanese over Senkaku yet, since the US's full intervention is guaranteed. China can't challenge Russia yet. So it's either Taiwan or Tawang.
With America's new chip policy, they could end up becoming self-sufficient in chip production, so they are unlikely to make any decisions based on Taiwan's semiconductor industry alone.
Most probably one fine day chinese troops will land in taiwan and then announce game over. There will be some usual useless statements by western block, shed some crocodile tears and after that things will become normal.
There wont be any guerilla warfare in taiwan, ppl will move on. To add to that to fight a guerilla warfare there should be external support and for an island it will be hard to come by.
Most of us are biased due to our own motives , think taiwanese hate chinese and will fight them. But truth is somewhere in between, taiwan only wants to maintain status quo to benefit from both china & western block. What most of us miss that other than political relations , taiwan is very well connected to main land china economically & culturally. Some ppl will leave taiwan to western cntries apart from that it will simply become another hong kong play out.
one of the rumors going around is that chip shortage is due to chinese hoarding the chips. Recently even US requested info from TSM on chip supply info to vendors.
