• SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For the US, at least, I don’t think the people care enough about Taiwan to support going to war.

    • Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      The average citizen probably isnt informed enough to know how critical taiwanese manufacturing is to nearly all Western electronics, but I doubt that level of strategic importance is lost to the politicians who will be making the decision.

      • Dyf_Tfh@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        The thing is that semi fab are extremely fragile. For example, there was a Samsung memory fab where a few minutes of electricity black out killed months of production.

        Basically it is impossible to protect Taiwan’s fab. Those fab, by being the best in the world, are actually Taiwan’s best line of defense. As soon as they lose this advantage, they are doomed.

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      1 year ago

      I see what you’re saying, but it is really easy to drum up support, especially with how effective the media has become at manipulating public opinion. I’ve seen the US go to war over much less in my life.

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        1 year ago

        True, Iraq and Afghanistan became deeply unpopular. I guess they could drum up enough anti-China sentiment for a few years.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a good thing we don’t have referendums on these kind of things then.