Meanwhile in Europe...
https://www.esmc.eu/ it's not 3 or 5nm, but 12nm FinFet isn't bad.
Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Qing Dynasty annexed Xinjiang, Taiwan, Tibet, Mongolia, as well as large chunks of Central Asia, and fought with Sikhs over Kashmir. Looks like a good case of imperial expansion to me.
The person you replied to wrote: none of them were products of “Han Chinese imperialism.” This is correct, since the Qing Dynasty was led by the Manchus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty ), not by the Han Chinese.
It was not the Manchus who reconquered Tibet in the 1950s, after it had been an independent country for several decades.
And the general argument is not about whether there is something inherently imperialistc in the Han -- it is about whether the Han are so isolationist that this should somehow prevent China as a political entity from expanding. Well it has not prevented this before (cf. also the Tang period expansion, if we want to talk about more distant history), so I see no reason why it should prevent it now. Unless, say, the CCP cedes control to an openly Han-nationalist party, but then the last one was imperialist alright (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)).
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you lived in a country with local political representation and free elections, would you want your children to grow up in slavery to a dictatorship across the sea? Ask the Irish.
China has already said they'd allow one country two systems.
How’s that going in Hong Kong?
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#244Maybe we should stop selecting islands next to China to be global critical supply chain hubs. I mean, even if the Chinese were non-expansionist and benevolent, it's still kind of tempting them a little too much.
How many bases does china have around the world? How many does the US?
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
A LOT of countries on the planet talk about annexing their former territories, like Orbans Hungary. Others have actually done it (Armenia- Azerbaijan). What do you want to do about it? Start a world war with them just in case to provent them from doing it (further)? Bombing them in the name of peace?
The best defense is to have a military strong enough they won't dare attack.
Which is what China is doing because the US is a liability to everyone not in their sphere of influence. But that's bad apparently.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not even a tough call if you had to lay odds on which would go offline first. Is "politically unstable" once again an acceptable euphemism for a small democracy being threatened with destruction by a totalitarian superpower? I thought we decided that was gauche. After, say, the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
China doesn’t want to destroy Taiwan , it wants to reunite with it like it did with other territories that had been taken by foreign powers, like happened to Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan was occupied by Japan and then never went back to being China after the Japanese were defeated because the Chinese Party that was defeated in the Revolution fled to the Island and never accepted the PRC as legit government in China. S…
There’s definitely something embarrassing going on, and it starts but does not end with confusing destruction of a state with destruction of… I’m not even sure what you had in mind. The land? The infrastructure?
Taiwan’s democracy is absolutely threatened with destruction by a totalitarian superpower, that wasn’t in any way incorrect or misleading, and that’s how the GP post phrased it. Its state is threatened with destruction. That’s entirely accurate.
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#247Maybe we should stop selecting islands next to China to be global critical supply chain hubs. I mean, even if the Chinese were non-expansionist and benevolent, it's still kind of tempting them a little too much.
This is Japan selecting itself to develop a critical industry.
Being deeply embedded in global supply chains and your allies’ economies makes it a lot more difficult for them to justify abandoning you to your enemies.
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#248As a European I have to say I am extremely jealous of a government with the willingness of doing something as radical as this. Europe desperately needs to secure its own semi conductor supply chain. Neither the EU nor any member states seems willing to do anything about this though. Europe still is in a position, where it feasibly could control 100% of the semiconductor value chain on the continent. But besides meani…
Isn't Europe the source of almost all the tooling that goes into brand new fabs?
It's the one exception in the semiconductor supply chain where Europe is still leading. For all other parts of the value creation Europe is either a niche player at best or completely absent, well into the actual application layer.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fascinating! Why not? Why would you just lay down and let someone else rule over you?
In terms of survival strategies, letting someone else rule over you was sort of the OG Christian thing before they got control of the Roman Empire. It's kind of the default in most places. Declaring independence and actually succeeding at it and governing yourself is remarkably rare. The question isn't what you think is wise, or what you would do (because no one knows until they're in that situation). It's whether yo…
> Some people don't, evidently. Other people do.
I like how this can be interpreted two ways, depending on whether you place loved ones above governance, or vice versa.
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> This does not mean that China is going to go to war over them, certainly it won't go to war with India. Then why make a claim? Claims are made to prepare the domestic audience so that when war comes there is home support for the action. It is not made lightly. The Chinese are definitely taking action in the South China Sea. It is not just words.
> Claims are made to prepare the domestic audience so that when war comes there is home support for the action. It is not made lightly. That's your opinion, not reality.
What is in your view the need to make a claim?