China simulates hitting 'key targets' on Taiwan

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7 pointsxqcgrek23 comments

They can simulate all they want. Having to move so many troops across the straight will result in tens of thousands of dead within the first hours. Not even talking about a years-long global economic depression if something happens to TSMC. Did they simulate that?

All these videos and simulations are as fearsome as those Russian Zvezda propaganda videos - "behold our fearsome new tank, shooting into the void". The reality catches up really fast.

China has been sanctioned in terms of western chip exports and trade. The US and Europe would suffer immensely if TSMC gets bombed out, but China wouldn't lose much chip supply.

China gets its advanced chips from TSMC and used to get the equipment from other western manufacturers - it does not have latest-generations chip capability. They would be as f*ed as everyone, even more so. The US will have its own TSMC factory by then, and the chip lithography equipment is also made in Denmark and elsewhere.

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