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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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[+] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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    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.

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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    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.

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  • [+] -7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
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    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

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