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  Why tf do some world leaders have such a boner for invading sovereign nations, I don't fucking get it.
  Wouldn't it be less trouble for literally everyone to just mind their own fucking business.
context: Weapon deliveries always take YEARS. The weapons that the United States sold to Taiwan under George W. Bush took 4 years to deliver. And that’s not taking into account the pandemic or the war in Ukraine.
  It's the same as when Australia ordered submarines from France and then canceled. >
  
  I don't think there is anyway AUS would have cancelled if it wasn't for the tech transfer the UK was offering though. >
  
  That wasn’t the point — the point was that its normal for the delivery of weapons to take some time. >
  
  Yep; Japan announced it was buying Global Hawks in 2013; the first one was delivered in early 2022. >
  
  Waiting for the obligatory “China warns…” >
  
  And rockets fired at under water monsters by North Korea. >
  
  Are tanks really a threat to Taiwan? I would think chinese air and naval units pose more of a threat. Or can these systems be used as anti-air? >
  
  Well, you can't take a country by air and water only. Planes can't hold territory and boats only go where water is.
  It would be useful for the eventual tanks China would put on Taiwanese land. >
  
  Depends on what kind of war China is going to be fighting and what their propaganda will let the CPC get away with. If it's an ideological war, the goal will be to end the civil war. The PLA can do this by wiping out all life on the island. Luckily, the CPC and most of the population considers the Taiwanese to be fellow Han, so that type of propaganda would only work for the most extreme nationalistic types. >
  
  China wants, and kinda needs, their manufacturing though. Taiwan is the world leader in semiconductors. Which China struggles with. >
  
  I fear at some point the strategic benefit to China in denying the production to everyone else will outweigh the desire to capture it. I imagine the Taiwanese would destroy or sabotage the factories before they're captured anyway. >
  
  
  I fear at some point the strategic benefit to China in denying the production to everyone else will outweigh the desire to capture it.
  
  Nah. China is just as dependent on Taiwanese chips as the rest of the world… but the technology for those chips is made by the Dutch. 
  If China wipes out global chip production, it will be rebuilt somewhere in the U.S. or Europe… and those countries will not be selling those chips to China. >
  
  
  it will be rebuilt somewhere in the U.S. or Europe…
  
  That's already happening. Arizona and Columbus Ohio are both opening huge factories in the next year or 2 >
  
  Production starts next year. Source: was offered a EHS job by them (TSMC subsidiary) and asked about the timeline.  They're moving really quickly with it. >
  
  We hired a shit ton of people for when it opens.  I'm not sure if installs are already going on, but that place is growing damn fast and we'll have sustaining ready to go soon it feels. >
  
  I had to turn the offer I got down, but yea within 3 days after the first interview I got an offer and would have wanted me to start 1 week after the offer. It was an interesting process, but the cost of living in Phoenix is just too damn hgh. >
  
  If China tries to invade Taiwan, all they're going to do is chum the water.