yallmad4

yallmad4 t1_j6gb8p4 wrote

It's not a question of yes/no can they produce these chips, it's can they produce them in such quantities that they can make super advanced missiles at scale. The better chips you have the more advanced your munitions are. This still impacts them, and makes their ability to militarize in the short term hampered.

The short term is important because Taiwan is increasingly drifting away from the Chinese sphere of influence, and is turning their entire country into a fortress after Ukraine got Ukraine'd. The longer it takes for them to militarize to the point of being able to pull off an extremely difficult amphibious invasion, the exponentially harder that invasion will be.

Strategically, this decision is sound.

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