How do you stop someone who has a bunch of factories from making something?
China doesn’t have the tech to make 5nm semiconductor microchips or whatever domestically like Taiwan does and a huge part of the new Cold War seems to be America trying to stop or slow down China from catching up technologically in that regard. Seems a bit absurd to think they can really do much about it though, China is going to get there one way or another.
Also, China seems to be one of the only countries that is actively trying to improve it’s educational system, and haven’t been slashing budgets left and right from universities. So even if they aren’t particularly “advanced” within a given subject, they still provide the framework for getting there. It’s something that my colleague, who works in part for the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been talking about at length.
Edit: I am also well aware that the CAS is not exactly representative of the average Chinese university, but it is pretty revealing to me that every single university in Denmark has had to cut their budgets, even as work-preassure reaches new highs, while our “competitor for the future” seems to be making progressively more and more investments into it’s foundations, while we are too busy stripping out the copper-wire.
Just blame everything on those gosh darn non-STEM majors who are destroying universities with their wokeness and affirmative action.
The process of sketching a mirco processor starts with purified doped silicon substrate, with ultra pure water that cleans in between every plating & sketch, the laser used to do it drips molten tin into a chamber that is vaporized into radiation which is reflected into a housing that focuses on to the substrate, the process of doing that drip and focusing light into predictable and controll able beams is what makes it hard to print smaller chips, besides knowing how to build useful micro circuits.
There’s way more steps and it can take up 2 weeks to produce a batch cpus, this has been my how its sorta made section.
Yeah, bullshit. I know the truth.
It’s magical fuckery created by wizards using arcane spells and intricate symbols to summon and entrap slave daemons. Open your EYES people! Abolish computers! Daemons have rights too!
Ok you got me, its traped demon souls, we basicly live in the doom universe.
Everyone who warned the US that picking this fight would only cause China to develop it’s own technologies is probably looking real smug right about now.
It’s really going to flourish when they bring Taiwan back in
it’s unlikely they’ll try now that they saw what happened with Russia and Ukraine and how that was more costly and difficult than expected.
In internal chinese politics it’s the army that push for war on Taiwan while the party and state apparatus frankly aren’t that interested. Now there’s a recent example of the fact that doing so might lead to ships sinking and a lot of soldiers dying the military will likely loose a lot of interest in pushing the issue
Taiwan has half the population and a much smaller military than Ukraine. Also China has 10x the population of Russia and a larger military with a much larger budget. The US will have to put a lot of resources in to maintain sphere of influence over Taiwan. The periphery of the empire is starting to fall apart and the US can barely support this war in Ukraine and will have to soon deploy their own ground troops/air support to prevent Russian victory. If China decides to liberate Taiwan, the US will go into full crisis.
yeah but Taiwan is also an island in an entrenched position there is a reason that Mao left it alone during the civil war.
Also China doesn’t have much of a naval tradition so this would be one of the first major naval campaigns the Chinese state has conducted and they’d probably take heavy casualties at least initially like with the Moskova which sank because the bulkheads were left open in an active warzone and there wasn’t an effective fire drill procedure in place, largely because Russia similarly doesn’t have much of a naval tradition.
It’s not worth it for China and the heavy fighting would probably damage a lot of the high tech industries that make Taiwan potentially valuable
also a nuclear power with it’s back against the wall is a situation to avoid
You do realize that Russia is barely fighting over there right? That’s why it’s a slog. They mostly having the lpr dpr fight it out. Also they are, for what ever reason, doing this all with very dated tech and barely using there new tech.
China vs taiwan would be over very fast
China v Taiwan would unquestionably be a war that China wins but I doubt it would be a war they win without significant casualties including likely loss of expensive ships.
It’s a difficult proposition to fight a naval invasion and it’s just not worth the hassle
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