Re: Here's what China is doing...

On 11/3/24 9:15 AM, pothead wrote:

On 2024-11-03, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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... while we waste money and fight amongst ourselves.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/china-built-50-billion-military-stronghold-south-china-sea
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When the fuck are people going to wake up to the China threat?

Where's chrisv been for the past decade?  I can't find if I made comment here on their South China Sea border claims that they revived in 2012, citing a debunked 1960 map, but there is this from two years ago:
"...diplomacy with China has been a pretty delicate thing for decades; one can look back to the UK's departure from Hong Kong and what's transpired there since for some examples. Overall, the question with China and Taiwan is essentially a chess game where China needs to decide if they want to risk an escalation to actual military conquest, as is being influenced by today's Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well as other factors which basically revolve around optimization of the rate of change in respective military capabilities, of the same general flavor for what motivated Russia into their 'now or never' invasion of Ukraine."
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.advocacy/c/kChjJfaw6Bo/m/Pb-blr1cBQAJ>

They
make  damn-near *everything* for us. When, NOT IF, they blockade or
overtake Taiwan, where almost all the advanced chips are being made,
we'll know a new level of shortages.

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     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
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     The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th
     United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August
     9, 2022. The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost
     domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States,
     for which it appropriates $52.7 billion.[1][2][3] The act includes $39
     billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on U.S. soil along with 25%
     investment tax credits for costs of manufacturing equipment, and $13
     billion for semiconductor research and workforce training, with the
     dual aim of strengthening American supply chain resilience and
     countering China.
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You thought that there was supply problems during Covid, did you?
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Why are FUCK are we not now on a war footing with these bastards?

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Because you are wrong.

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China has about 3 times our population. Yeah, let's take 'em on!  :-D
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     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
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     The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror, the Yellow Menace, and the Yellow
     Specter) is a racist color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and
     Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world.
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     The concept of the Yellow Peril derives from a "core imagery of apes,
     lesser men, primitives, children, madmen, and beings who possessed special
     powers", which developed during the 19th century as Western imperialist
     expansion adduced East Asians as the Yellow Peril.
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 And the CHIPS Act is failing already.
 <https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/02/biden-tech-chips-achievement-losing-support-00186851>

Seems that some folks don't really have a problem with the requirements...
...and are outperforming their own home plant:
"TSMC Arizona Semiconductor Yields Surpass Taiwan Facilities"
<https://www.electropages.com/blog/2024/10/tsmc-arizona-semiconductor-yields-surpass-taiwan-facilities>

Under Biden/Harris what *doesn't* fail ?

Truth doesn't fail.
-hh