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Taiwan is a territory in China's neighbourhood. Taiwan is about 2000 km from China and 12000 km from the US. Fuel costs money and it's more expensive for the nations defunding Taiwan to send the cruisers and carriers on patrol than it is for China to send its ships into the waters.
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Reclamation of Taiwan is one of the core tenets of modern day Chinese ambitions- Xi Jinping in an announcement a few years back declared a date earlier than 2030 for when Taiwan will be United with China which shows that it is a core ideal pursued by the CCP.
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The people consider Taiwan China's territory. Reclaiming Taiwan is a matter of national pride and the people believe that they are meant to have Taiwan as a part of China. The support for Taiwan takeover is not just at the party level but throughout their society.
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The primary reason for Taiwanese protection is its chip manufacturing. Taiwan has state of the art chip manufacturing facilities and produces some of the smallest nanometer standard semiconductor chips in the world and is one of the largest suppliers of high level chips to the world. This is what makes Taiwan especially geopolitically relevant to the US and the West. Taiwan is currently able to implement a 5nm standard, someone can correct me but if I am not being domestic production within the US itself is currently at 7nm processes. With China entering full scale production for 14 nm semiconductors only this year. Which puts China at least five years behind the peak in semiconductor technology even at the fastest rates of research, but far more likely one to one and a half decades behind the cutting edge. If the US is able to shift chip manufacturing at the cutting edge back to the US then it would no longer be reliant on Taiwan and would not have as much of a reason to defend them, but this situation is unlikely to arrive for at least another decade.
The most important points in my opinion are 3 and 4 together. Taiwan only exists as a country today because it is of high value to the west in terms of keeping the lights and manufacturing on at the cutting edge. The day that advantage disappears it is likely that soon the protections provided would disappear.
So my final prediction is that Taiwan is reunited with China because China considers it a national policy and national pride issue to take back Taiwan, but it happens by 2040-2050 because of the reason that Taiwan goes out of it's way to be at the cutting edge to retain value as an independent territory.
Thank you for reading this far and I would love to hear your opinion on the matter.
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I'm assuming this is some kind of mistake because I haven't tried to login for weeks and I am hilarious and easy-going. What gives jannies?
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- Drippo : Jannies clean it up
- antiracist_tulpa : having a meltie
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fist my anus until i bleed, hail hitler
frick my butthole with a wh-te aryan yamato peepee until i bleed, hail hitler
milk my peepee until i sperminate, hail hitler
ingest gallons of semen, hail hitler
- sandkwinn : libertarian r-slur
- arsey : r-slurred
- antiracist_tulpa : having a meltie
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- AnalKong : Gay and not funny
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hail hitler! i wish i could feel his throbbing nazi peepee inside my own anus - fascist style sodomy - hitler himself and his men regularly spit-roasted children. sodomizing children is the way we carry on the legacy of the nsdap. hitler's erect peepee is inside my head and inside my anus
throat frick me hitler!
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Alright so most often there is a hue and cry about how the world will be a worse place once the US ceases to be a hegemon around the globe as there will be more authoritarianism, more conflicts, a new age of regional expansion, etc.
While I agree with all these statements I would like to go down a different route and point out to one feature of a multi feature world that everyone ignores. Increased competitiveness and civilizational growth.
As per one view of history, civilizational growth tends to be cyclic. I.e. peace time, decline, breaking apart, new growth, integration, prosperity, peacetime.
What this means is that every time a system of doing things reaches its peak, it breaks down and is then promptly replaced by something even better before that reaches its peak and declines and is replaced and so it goes.
For example- the largest empire if you go by land size was actually the USSR and in no other point in history did we ever see national level integration at that scale. It broke apart, and later we can expect something even larger and more efficient to take its place.
Now why is that relevant to a multi polar world. It is so because now we are likely going to reach a new age of expansion where countrues either integrate into continental powers, break apart, or are forcefully taken over.
"That's awful" you say, sounds like a world filled with constant bloodshed and violence. To which I say nukes changed the story. The countries that can now be invaded and territories taken over only happens when there is an extreme power discrepancy between two areas which highly limits the regions where such conflicts would take place.
On top of that we also have both the US and China pushing for increased, research, investment, and development all over the world to improve their situation.
For example, did you know that the belt and road initiative if placed on a world map displays infrastructure development plans all across the underdeveloped world? This is because the only countries generally willing to sign up for BRI are generally nations who did not prosper under American hegemony, so for the first time they find themselves with great opportunity for growth.
With a multipolar world we find ourselves with all the countries of the world seeing new growth and prosperity in a fight to gain their support so that the other side doesn't.
Thank you for coming to my talk. I would love to hear your opinion on the matter. Let's discuss.
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