Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why would Taiwan NOT be another Ukraine?" video.

  1. Chip fabs are extremely delicate, even simple neglect could cause them to go out of spec permanently especially with the advanced single-digit nanometer generations. A big reason Taiwan and South Korea are the leading chip makers is because they're small enough to get the right engineer from anywhere in the country onsite within a couple hours when deviances and faults start rising out of a given batch.
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  2. Recognition for a separate Taiwan might be pitched at that point, and unlike Russia's "liberations" much of the West might actually go for it. Really the only solid "One China" countries are in Africa who aren't going to be able to send much help to Beijing.
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  3. Unless Russia willingly cedes their Far East to China (and they're not), this would spark a nuclear exchange; it'd be the Sino-Soviet Split gone hot. Plus the PRC already gave up those claims when they finalized their borders with Russia after the Soviet collapse.
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