Some good news out of China, well maybe

[Lethe200]

So very true, doesn't have to be the "either/or" situation I spoke of [above].



Taiwan's chip Fabs are hot property, it is in the Free World's best interest to keep Russia and China from controlling the high end computer chip supply.

Personal: my son-in-law is Taiwanese, when I met his dad a few month's before the wedding we talked, and even though his dad has close ties and lives part time in Taiwan, he inexplicably seems unconcerned about PRC's current posture.

He is unconcerned (relatively) because two things are needed - the manufacturing capability and the engineering expertise. You can take over the facilities by conquest, but if the engineers flee (which they will) you are left with....native talent. And neither China nor Russia has enough of that at an advanced level, to keep those facilities running. Sometimes it's as simple as not having the trained service/maintenance techs, either!

I admit that I fail to see how any "complex" is prodding China to invade Taiwan. China's entire history is based upon China being the unrivaled power in the East, with other nations accepting their domination. Half of their historic record - some 2,000 yrs - they have been the Asian and Indo-Asian center of global trade and wealth.

The US is an infant in their eyes - armed with a big gun; but noisy, undisciplined, short-sighted, and quite likely to be merely a blip in global history, whereas China considers itself one of the true seats of civilization and culture.

To the Chinese, conquest - financial and political - of surrounding countries is how the world should be run. They do not historically repulse invaders - it didn't work in the 1940's and won't work now - they absorb them into their own culture. Xi's policies towards the Uyghurs is actually a real departure from tradition, and most of that is due to the Pakistan and Afghanistan right-wing extremists. The latter are not a threat to China per se, but he views them as a threat to the CCCP, which is different.