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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?

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

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[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.