United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told a gathering of top security officials he doesn’t see war with China as imminent, nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
China may start a war over Taiwan, but that would be the only thing really that would realistically lead in that direction, and the the West would probably do a Ukraine where they just supply aid, not actually get involved in the fighting. If we were ready to fight on behalf of Taiwan we’d be recognizing them as a country and sending high profile diplomatic visits regularly etc.
More or less all of the CCPs geopolitical and economic efforts would be undone by a war, the world already hates the CCP and it’s not going to make them more likable if they start a war. Plus there’s no real benefit to the west. It’s not like anyone is looking to occupy China, the CCP knows this they just use the idea as propaganda for their own people.
Taiwan makes all the microchips. The US military needs chips for all the nukes and spy satellites. I think the US government would opt for violence long before they turn around and be like “fuck it, pentium 1s are good enough” like Russia did with those secondhand 350nm machines.
Not sure if they could get the Arizona TSMC plant to cooperate or even keep it operational once said war happens, but that’s an option too. Every time I’m hearing about that plant it’s just more problems and delays but who knows.
On a lighter note, I can’t wait for some Russian made 2025 486s with clock multipliers higher than 4x to start popping up on ebay. It’ll go with my retro gaming setup nicely.
China may start a war over Taiwan, but that would be the only thing really that would realistically lead in that direction, and the the West would probably do a Ukraine where they just supply aid, not actually get involved in the fighting. If we were ready to fight on behalf of Taiwan we’d be recognizing them as a country and sending high profile diplomatic visits regularly etc.
More or less all of the CCPs geopolitical and economic efforts would be undone by a war, the world already hates the CCP and it’s not going to make them more likable if they start a war. Plus there’s no real benefit to the west. It’s not like anyone is looking to occupy China, the CCP knows this they just use the idea as propaganda for their own people.
Taiwan makes all the microchips. The US military needs chips for all the nukes and spy satellites. I think the US government would opt for violence long before they turn around and be like “fuck it, pentium 1s are good enough” like Russia did with those secondhand 350nm machines.
Not sure if they could get the Arizona TSMC plant to cooperate or even keep it operational once said war happens, but that’s an option too. Every time I’m hearing about that plant it’s just more problems and delays but who knows.
On a lighter note, I can’t wait for some Russian made 2025 486s with clock multipliers higher than 4x to start popping up on ebay. It’ll go with my retro gaming setup nicely.
This is exactly why, the US has been quietly pushing extremely hard to build large modern fabs here (although many are in Texas which is stupid).