Reunification ‘is unstoppable’, says Chinese president, a day after the conclusion of intense military drills

Thoughts?

Is this imperialism by China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing? Leftists are normally anti-imperialism. Wouldn’t it be better to let Taiwan democratically decide whether they want to be part of China or not?

  • BoJackHorseman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    2 days ago

    So it’s all about TSMC, the west doesn’t give a shit about the people or the land.

    Well, China only cares about the land. You can take TSMC from Taiwan.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
      122·
      2 days ago

      That is dumb. TSMC is comprised of the world’s foremost experts in chip technology. They are people, and probably would like to stay in their homeland. Furthermore, it takes at least a decade to build the infrastructure to create microchips, which requires extremely stable geology. A power outage or an earthquake can cause lithography machines to miss their target, ruining months of work.

      TSMC is intrinsically tied to the land and people.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        create microchips, which requires extremely stable geology. A power outage or an earthquake can cause lithography machines to miss their target, ruining months of work.

        TSMC is intrinsically tied to the land and people.

        sure, that’s why Taiwan is located on one of earth’s most active earthquake regions

        edit: bad cropping of image is not my fault, i found it like that on the internet and am to lazy to find another one

        edit: here’s another one

      • BoJackHorseman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        1 day ago

        That wasn’t my point.

        The west only cares about TSMC and not the island or the common people of Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have TSMC, the west wouldn’t give two shits about the island.

        • jumjummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 day ago

          And China only cares about Taiwan for the land and the image it projects of “reunifying China”. They don’t care about the people in Taiwan since a vast majority don’t want to be invaded by China.

          Look at how well the Hong Kong “reunification” went.