I think since China’s public boat construction it’s kind of legit they have the largest navy

I remember reading somewhere that the largest measures of ownership of some millitary tech or asset will tend to be some order of the different branches of the US military before getting to different countries. I know it's the case for number of planes and munitions

Plus their military hardware is a bunch of junk, their big aircraft carrier can't move without tug boats. They just lost a nuke sub and all aboard as it hit bottom. Their copied US fighter jets don't work right. Smaller things must have problems too, as contractors cut cost in production. They would be wiped out in the first weeks of real war with US and allies who have real weapons.

@@icebaby6714 I hope for china's sake they don't use the same terrible steel that they've been building the tofu drege houses out of. This isn't sarcasm either, I seriously hope they look out for their servicemen by making sure their ships are built to the highest standard.

​@@icebaby6714"mega ships"? 😂😂😂 bro wtf that's not even a real term

Lives*

@@MrPeterPanto live is to leaf

Why did you “leave” taiwan?

​@@Warawarayadnusbcause China

If Taiwan just wants peace why do they keep taking US weapons?

smart? now china wants it even more....

Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

@@kingwing3203 Did they let you past the firewall?

@@thijsg717no he works for them

​@@kingwing3203i mean, we westerners can use them and I am very sure China uses them too just like europe uses russian oil, just not labeled as russian

I think that's just good buiness, to make the market bigger is a benefit to Taiwan. But if you let another business/country become better than the founder, you lose your tactical edge. This assumption that Taiwan will be ahead 2 generations does forget to take into consideration the assumed risk that comes with being inventive. There is a chance the Taiwan company takes a big hit to start producing 2nm chips, but they have decided the luxury product companies will more than pay for any disruption they might find.

Taiwan may start two generations ahead, both of which I would add will have unknown yields and stability in production as designs rapidly close in on quantum tunneling complications, but frankly it's doubtful they will remain generations behind, especially considering the technology roadmap for silicone is coming to an end with as yet no clear next generation technology to replace it. The US and Europe need a hedge against the worst case scenario, and have both the resources and will to build such. TSMC has done an incredible job, and I hope it remains the dominant market player for decades to come because it is cost effective and efficient, but it would be foolish in the extreme to think the US is incapable of building security into its technology pipeline by building capacity. There will be costs, there will be pain, but it will happen, because it must happen.

​@MunkeyBrewster Unfortunately the US doesn't possess the work ethic and process improvement required to step forward as efficiently as the Taiwanese. Their culture is unified, not divided up for political purposes either.

@@skullhart Mm, agree to disagree. I don't think people making that bet in the past saw dividends on the sentiment. Of course, every situation is a new and unique circumstance, but I see no reason to be pessimistic about our chances. Still, only time will tell I suppose.

@persona2grata I worked in several aerospace manufacturing companies. We utilized an ACE (achieving competitive excellence) model which was essentially 6 sigma. The plants in China consistently made ACE gold when our facilities could BARELY even meet the minimum criteria. Their work ethic and consistency absolutely destroyed any plant we had in the US or EU. Our US employees earned over 2x the compensation as well. So this is one example I can personally confirm as 100% true. Consider also why so many other products are made in China and overseas. AND now the largest auto manufacturer is in China.

Hey great info in this comment! Are you aware of any videos like real life lore that talk about this kind of info?

Check out the book Chip War if you haven't read it yet.

@@lasthope909 There's a lot of documentary style videos about this on UKposts

10/10 comment thank you!

Cool

I'm prepared to read a map and wash my own dishes again. In fact, I think it would be a good idea.

@@tomfoolery5680 I get what you’re saying and don’t disagree but it’s not like existing electronics would magically stop working. Nobody really NEEDS to get new electronics every year like new iPhones each year. It would have an economic impact buts it’s not like we’d be sent to the Stone Age the way people seem to think

is the chip shortage due to taiwan exporting less chip... or china? this is what most people fail to understand, China produce almost as many chip as Taiwan does... China produce more chip than US does... world has been lied to...

@@lagrangewei >_> what where on qanon did you source that information

wtf are you talking about, China imports most of its microtechnology from the States. They just build cheap production-line garbage there, not invent anything of value.

Sadly I don’t think Xi Jinping has the same ideals

But that ambivalence is the problem. This status quo isn't even really legal. Until Taiwan declares independence properly, China will always have a right to assert their control over it. If you really want peace, you have to act.

​@@David-ud9ju what on earth are you talking about? You think there's some legal procedure Taiwan can perform that will somehow handcuff the Chinese military and prevent them from ever invading? You do realize that sovereign nations get invaded all the time right? When a country gets invaded they can't just go to some international court to prove they declared independence and have the invader kicked out. What you're suggesting is literally what provokes the Chinese into wanting to invade.

There was a real commitment from China to let Hong Kong handle itself far more than they've delivered. Taiwan wouldn't even be starting with any promises. It won't go well.

If you count Intel's current fabs as not being ancient (which you may or may not) then LTT did a video of inside a current Intel fab, and it looked similar to these videos.

@@aaardvaaark they were only allowed in little bits and loads of it was blurred anyways

What's your point..?? How do you spell DUH..?

Even much more minor stuff is protected. You can't film the place in the M&M factory that prints the "M".

@@aaardvaaark I work in a fab, thanks. I know what I’m looking at here. I could probably tell you what half these things do just looking at the face plate and footprint. This is all pretty old stuff.

IKR. Makes you question the motives of the channel as a whole after that.

True, I’m liking this channel less and less…

​@@icecold5707why

China has its own server for tik tok called douyin, china only.

@@icecold5707 99% American propaganda

It's American tech, if China invades America burns everything down before defending their friends.

It's also a lot better if the war for Taiwan lasts for a while that the US military whose ever more reliant on semiconductor technology to not have their own means supplying themselves be so vulnerable !

​@@TheMiracleMatterTSMC gambled on ASML. They also cluster their suppliers. Any technology leader can be fast followed or copied.

@@mefobills279everyone gambled on ASML, lol. They’re the only producer of EUV machines in the world.

This is exactly why the US has no business at all interfering. Until and unless everyone can produce the most advanced chips, war after war is inevitable. Screw what is paramount to the US or the EU. Unless we start thinking about what paramount to everyone is, to the entire world, we will continually fall into war after war after war until someone gets tired of losing and resorts to nuclear weapons. Or worse., and there are things worse than nuclear weapons.

still is

@@marc_frank It might not be in the future. OP is a visionary.

I only watched this video in anticipation of a title change

UKposts plays Tik Tok ads and Tik Tok is owned by the CCP. Thus the CCP partially controls UKposts. You can never be sure when UKposts won't bow under the pressure it's Chinese masters are exerting upon it.

China have the rights to defend itself from Taiwan terrorists groups. Just like Israel they shouldnt be forced to negociate with terrorists. China need to keep protecting its sovereignty over Taiwan terrorists.

well, they said the same things about Germany and other states importing much of their energy from Russia. But now the official position seems to be "that was really dumb, we should've never been reliant on Russia". It's always good when it works out well but when it doesn't it was always a bad plan from the start. Whether this applies to this situation only time will tell

@@Loeffelluxyou should be a politician! you managed to say nothing in all that text

@@ericsilver9401 yikes, some people are just allegric to nuance, I guess

Theoretically, if you make yourself a valuable trade partner to all sides, you are less likely to be invaded. However, we are currently seeing that plan fall through in a few different places. Hell, just look at Hawaii.

​@Loeffellux From that perspective, there's no such thing as a good plan. All plans will eventually come undone. These policies kept relative peace between the major world economies for decades, increased prosperity, and allowed diplomacy between countries who had been enemies for centuries. They were not bad plans.

Taiwans near semiconductor monopoly is magnitudes more important to the global economy than Russias gas. You can very easily drill for fossils if you have the deposits but the manufacturing of semi-conductors can take years to decades to develop. We see the EU and US just now slowly starting to ramp up production again but even with imported technology it will take forever to create significant manufacturing hubs. And even they'll be very unlikely even remotely competitive to Taiwan for a long time. If China would take over Taiwan tomorrow they would control more than 75% of all semi-conductor manufacturing, without most developed countries having an alternative for a very long time. This would give China near infinite economic leverage, like they could practically disarm the US military this way. So for the moment it isn't just an economic relation but pretty much the technological independence of the West. And that's not a case for chance for any rational world leader.

You have that backwards with Russia who depended on the European market and then getting slowly cut out with the emergence of Ukraine's gas and oil industries.

@@atlasreturns1793 Huawei's new Mate 60 Pro proves that Taiwan is not indispensable and will become less relevant as China advances it semiconductor lithography processes. You can't be #1 forever as the West and Taiwan is finding out the hard way.

You've missed some important news. Putin wanted peace, Zelensky refused. The US war machine, of which Zelensky is puppet, is the problem both in Ukraine and in Taiwan.

@@bobsmith3983 Hello from the China Uncensored comment section, mr. bot.

Lol I was thinking the same thing xD

Civ 6 might just be a game, but it certainly helped me understand a decent amount of global politics 😅

Been playing that franchise since Civ 1! As a teen it taught me so much 🤓

Only ever played Civ V, have played that game for several years. Still one of my favorite games!

Maybe instead of relying on funny symbols from popular video games to show what he's talking about, the author could've just condensed his points while writing the video, so that it didn't end up as word salad.

你觉得有多少人会为台独而战，即使支持台独的人

Hi, are there channels you would recommend to show what life in Taiwan is like?

The same thing applied to Ukraine. A large portion of them considered themselves Russian, as it was the language they spoke. But from the day rockets start hitting your home, you'll know which team you're on.

As an overseas Chinese trying to understand the complexity of PRC/ROC issue, the ROC/Taiwan side imo always looks like it is two-faced and filled with contradictions that involves understanding Taiwanese politics. I get headaches thinking about their politicians when they say they are not China to most of the world, and they say they are the real China to countries like Haiti and Guatemala; as if they can’t make up their mind on who they are or want to be.

Wait, but doesnt your passport say ROC?

Wonder if it really is a shield if they're moving TSMC to the US. Besides, didnt the US promise to destroy TSMC in Taiwan in any Chinese invasion? Nice friends they have

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 That assumes Taiwan hasn't said themselves they would rather destroy TSMC just to make sure China didn't benefit from it. So yes, the US is merely standing in solidarity with Taiwan against the violent evil that is China.

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 Did you just get that you didn't understand what you were talking about and you said something really dumb? Or are you going to pretend you were always right and double down on your dumb somehow? It is going to be the second one isn't it?

@@cat-vv9xb lol quit lying. Taiwan leadership was shocked by the US statement

@@thomgizziz you're the one who literally can't read English nor reply with a legitimate argument. Insanity plea isn't gonna work when they take you away bruh

It's 20,000 wafers per month, 20,000 chips per month is a joke. Also the damage to Chinese economy that the invasion of Taiwan would bring will be much bigger than some semiconductor crisis... It's bad when you have limited supply of newest microchips but when you can't import coal to generate electricity or food to feed the people it's existential problem.

Holy shit i didnt know that

thank you for the break down! i knew making my stupid iphone would become prohibitively expensive for a rube like me due to nebulous “supply chain issues,” and that’s where my knowledge ended- until i found you 😃

Those foundries are rigged to blow in the event of an invasion. Almost guaranteed and China probably knows it.

Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

Japan: "Round 2 Modaf*ckas!"

The CCP was anti-American and anti-Soviet in the 1960s. PLA bombarded Taiwan’s Kinmen for 21 years from 1958 to 1979. CCP attacked India in 1962, armed Vietcong against US 1964 to 1975, funded communist revolutions in all Asia, Africa and Latin America, intervened in the Macau riots in 1966, intervened in the Hong Kong riots in 1967, and attacked the Soviet Union in 1969. It is difficult to imagine that China will only attack Taiwan, instead of makeing trouble in Ukraine, Israel, Cuba, Korea, Japan at the same time as it did in the 1960s?

Yeah, because if they do successfully conquer Taiwan, they would exert authority over Taiwan's administrative claims in the South China Sea, which is a no-no.

Japan is heavily militarizing itself and screaming for an excuse to go back to its old warrior ways to lift itself out of economic doldrums.

Japan would not be happy since Japan is occupied by the USA since WW2. Japan is not independent.

That is such a funny comment!

what developer? God?

Advantageful? You mean advantageous?

Advantagable might be the right word here

Unfortunately Unity's ToS retroactively charges a sum of 20% revenue for any updates made and therefore this patch will be removed soon.

Taiwan is part of China, read Potsdam Declaration and Carol Declaration. And many Taiwanese Han were immigrated from the mainland China for a fact.

It’s not an invasion, it’s a unification. Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

@@kingwing3203 ok shill

Foreigners group them together because Taiwanese are 95% han Chinese by blood, even if they created their own culture and mixed with some indigenous folk. It doesn’t help that the UN doesn’t recognize Taiwan either. Hope it isn’t invaded tho

They wouldn't play "no role" in the invasion, but their role would be limited to defending landing ships probably, the Taiwan strait is quite shallow and has a length of 100 miles to Taiwan, perfect for protection duty. The US will not go into the strait, the smaller vessels don't have the range, weaponry, and armor to engage the US ocean faring ships, so it won't be counted as part of the equipment the US has to worry about.

Note, if a war between China and Taiwan happens, it will be around China's "coast". So their "costal" fleet is perfectly designed for that 😂 Of course, if US wants to enter a total war with China next to the Chinese coast, I think China would welcome the chance to eradicate US influence from Asia once and for all ❤😂

​@@Ghettofingeri believe they will be vital. most of the vessels are just not for blue waters, the strait is absolutely fine for them on regular weather (and no one is doing an invasion during a typhoon, monsoon or something). for the japanese islands they would have a bit of trouble i guess

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂any more boasting? Ask taliban

@@Ghettofinger The US is an ocean away, whereas Taiwan is basically at China's doorstep. Should Israel's war spill over into the region as a whole, and combined with having to give most of the weapon and ammo stocks to Ukraine, don't count on Taiwan getting undivided attention from the West. And what about the land based anti-ship missiles China has? I believe it is the cardinal sin in war to underestimate your opponent. Look at what happened to Russia and Israel.

It is if you see yourself as the legitimate inheriter of all China, assuming Taiwan Island is part of the Chinese territory, and that there can only be one. That's a lot of assumption.

Taiwan airlift...

100%...All there ships are gasoline powered (their only "nuclear" submarine just went boom if they even had one) and 50% of their military equipment is trash or just doesn't work properly. They would start of strong but crumble quickly, target their full ships and the rest become sitting ducks.

That’s a great response. Keeping the ships fueled shouldn’t be such a problem as Taiwan is so close to China. Would the US actually start to sink the “sitting ducks”? I wonder. More likely possibly that Taiwan would attack the mainland with missiles. Not sure.

@@walterzagieboylo6802Our navy could start an embargo too, China is an export orientated economy (it’s been the largest exporting country since 2009) and when that is cut off the Chinese economy will suffer greatly.

​@@Orbitalresonancefrequenciesbruh how will you do that though isn't China big like litterly big it has other areas that it can export

Next video: How the Bahamas are on the BRINK of COLLAPSE

You should probably not look up climate change and sea level rise then. It doesn't look good for the Bahamas tbh

@@TheSeanHydenalways gotta be afraid of something, eh 🙄

@dpassch7 I also live right next to venezuela and my city is very close by, so their illegal inmigrants have swarmed in and now my city has a spike of crime rates...

@@TheSeanHyden And ocean acidification, ocean temperatures, or coral reef die offs.

The White Terror has been over for decades now.

Great point. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the statistics as to why a majority of Taiwanese now don't want to be part of mainland China.

Exact same thing happened in philippines. They practically had a popular pro-China government and sentiment, and almost anti-US. Then China started invading some of their little islands and claiming that the whole of that sea belonged to them, and even shot at them. Philippines government is now anti-China and have half a dozen new US bases and ready to team up with Taiwan.

There is no RE-unification , Taiwan has never been part of China

@@mikefixac every human has a programmable brain.

I mean,the CCP has made terrible choices in the handing of covid and even their own people are done with it at their government's bs The Question tho,is if that's enough to wake up the masses and abandon communism entirely or if they will just pick another dictator Seriously,being punished for talking bad about the goverment is probably the sickest thing and I don't see why they put up with it

1. Taiwan isn't not a country according to UN, US, Australia, India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, France, Vietnam, etc...how delusional and ignorant are the English audience of UKposts that I constantly see this blatant mistake being made in the comment section, yet almost nobody corrects them. It really shows the echo chamber effect 😂 2. Also, I think nuclear energy is better.

@@darthvadeth6290 Regardless of who acknowledges it as such, Taiwan is de facto a country even if not de jure. It cannot be denied that the ROC is autonomous of the PRC, even if each views the other as illegitimate.

@@darthvadeth6290 1.) you are an arrogant asshole. 2.) you would be right technically and it’s blatantly obvious so most people look past it because… 3.) diplomatically speaking no country recognizes Taiwan due to chinas history of genociding millions at no expense. So its easier to keep the game going because communists are greedy and if on paper its theirs they are happy. 4.) in reality on the ground, on the island they are a free and fair, independent state, that has no need for china.

​@@darthvadeth6290people like you need to read about the Asch's conformity experiment

@@darthvadeth6290 1: I'm pretty sure most people are aware that Taiwan is unrecognized, but let's be honest, it's just easier to call it a country, and it is a de-facto country anyways. 2: I think geothermal is interesting to look into; Iceland made it work. Sure, Iceland is a much smaller country, but I think it is an option that should be considered.

It's interesting that both those things aren't mutually exclusive - like he mentions, Taiwan's economic defense by being a critical producer of semiconductors provides the "silicon shield".

Yeah but they were designed by scientific method so I wouldn’t like to bet against it. 😂

Yep people really underestimate how quickly the global powers would thrown Ukraine under the bus if that meant to stale any attempts from China; they wouldn’t be seeing only US taking action against them if they ever try to touch not only Taiwan but a good chunk of islands neighboring the Mainland.

@@MrWhitmen1981 Don't give a damn about scientific method and I'm a scientist. We have all these failed experiments because real-life rarely works like theory. We always forget some variable or there is an unknown variable that we didn't know was a problem until testing. I'd bet against their untested designs winning anything 9 times out of 10

You are right

The problem is that the ccp is basically like a religious cult like the thugs who run Iran. These kind of people have absolute power and they believe their own propaganda, or at least toe the party line to keep from getting disappeared. Horrible concoction!

got fund from you know who, it's a team work, not a single man job

Hes just another propaganda mouthpiece and hes not even aware of it.

@@timothyandrewnielsensure thing pal

You have a chance as chinese youth to make a change when the old generations move on. As an american I’m hopeful for the future of china’s people. Health to you.

@@Ydrakar In fact, young people are more radical than older individuals. Young people believe that China can defeat the United States in Taiwan.

@@sfzz8517 I’ve no illusions in that regard. There is an active attempt to galvanize nationalism in China by the CCP currently. That said, there are also youth that know what is really going on on the world stage, beyond what media censorship would like them to know. I’m hopeful, but it certainly won’t be easy.

Thank you for understanding!!!

I hope you are behind a VPN. Oh of course you are, otherwise you would not be on youtube.

Then why not leave Taiwan because the land belongs to qing dynasty and its successor

Your Chinese ethnically, why just not say that? Is that hard? I mean there are Two China’s, one totalitarian and one democratic. You are omitting 3000 years just because the commies won in mainland China…..

For the PRC it makes no sense to try and take Taiwan, apart from ego. Long live Taiwan, it's people and their hard fought freedom and democracy.

No, it doesn't.@@Hayatiu

⁠@@HayatiuROC is the rightful successor to the Qing. Who the hell are you?

Nice! Chose wisely!

PHL will be invaded first and used as a platform to Island hop into Southern Taiwan and Taiwan will be unable to do much about it. It’s too easy to invade and control the Philippines.

fake news of BBC .Indeed Taiwan stomach is towards China mainland.Its mountains all towards USA side.And KMT always want to take mainland back again,but CPC keep strong,KMT then give up go back to mainland.

@@TheVineOfChristLives You fail to realize that China prefers good relations with everyone (for trade reasons) over conflict. Stop believing the drama of some American media & politicians, China has no intention of taking Taiwan, they were just flexing because Trump grossly offended them & they have an agreement with America about Taiwan that they were hinting at ending (while likely never actually having intended to end it, but just flexing because they can) To be blunt you should learn more about your country's history before you start putting labels on or making assumptions about other countries. Long story short China knows that attacking Taiwan or anyone else would just hurt their bottom line, and they prefer money over wars. EU calmed them down again pretty quickly when your orange moron pissed them off, there's nothing going on at the moment besides in the heads of some oddball 'patriots' in America.

​@@TheVineOfChristLivesif the Phillipines get invaded why wouldn't a blockade of China not be the response? They would run out of oil to run the ships before they even looked at taiwan

definitely. if China were democratic by now, probably Taiwan wouldn't be so hesitant to join. They saw what happened to Hong Kong.

Nope, freedom in general not only "economic" freedom. It's called personal liberty. Mainland China has a surprising amount of economic freedom, companies, jobs, services, etc. What they have none of is personal freedom.

People want to live under whatever they're told they want to live under, Taiwan was authoritarian up until 1989.

Yeah, that seems to be a general theme throughout human history.

​@@clarkl7027you mean West Taiwan?

@@clarkl7027 yeah, its a joke

@@clarkl7027is that why we have our own president and most people aren’t brainwashed?

1) In 1894, Japan invaded China and Korea, the Qing govt was defeated and signed the [Treaty of Shimonoseki] to cede Taiwan Island to Japan. 2) During the WW2, at the Cairo Conference held in 1943, China asked the transfer of Taiwan's sovereignty back to China after the war. This content was included in the [Cairo Declaration] and later reiterated in the [Potsdam Proclamation] that it should be implemented. 3) In 14 Aug & 2 Sept 1945, the Emperor and govt of Japan issued the [End War Edict] and [Japanese Instrument of Surrender], Japan surrendered and accepted the [Potsdam Proclamation]. The Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to KMT General CKS. Taiwan re-entered the territory of the Republic of China (ROC). 4) Soon after that China civil war broke out in between KMT and CCP, the KMT was defeated and fled to Taiwan. However, due to US intervention, the CCP without strong navy at that time has no ability to unify Taiwan. The CCP then established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The civil war continues..... 5) In 1971, UN Resolution No. 2758 ruled that the PRC had obtained the representation rights and all legal rights originally owned by the ROC in the UN. That means the PRC is China’s only legal govt under international law. Today the PRC also become China’s only legal govt recognized by 181 countries around the world, including the USA. "The USA recognizes the Government of the PRC as the sole legal Government of China." "The USA acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China." Joint Cummunique on the Establishment of Diplomatic relations between the PRC and the USA in 1979. Please refer to President Jimmy Carter's Speech on Relations with China. 6) Therefore, according to international law, international reality, and the wishes of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, Taiwan should return to PRC and the PRC have every rights to protect it's sovereign integrity.

@@kostakatsoulis2922 yes it’s truth. They’re part of Taiwan also they’re the biggest island in Taiwan 😂

Correct. And the knowledge wouldn’t suddenly disappear; those US fabs could be upgraded in a heartbeat to produce cutting edge chips.

Good perspective, thanks

Hey you 💋💋

Yep the capability to produce cutting edge chips also has to do with ASML’s EUV lithography machines which allow fabs to manufacture chips at 3 nanometer scale. Intel is also slated to receive these machines in Arizona right next door to TSMC.

IBM can do those 10 2nm chips if needed. it is just making those in huge volumes that TSMC does better than anyone else.

@hendrike3092 @RealLifeLofe yes the video part about the early development of semiconductor technology and production of equipment has a lot of mistakes. Like you said the only real manfucaturer of machines is Netherlands and the only real manufacture or mirrors is German Zeiss but the chain is much longer.

just in case you don't know about ASML either, they are similar to TSMC as being an unknown superpower as they are the company that makes the machines that make chips and wafers

Samsung Foundry 🇰🇷, Texas instruments 🇺🇲, TSMC 🇹🇼, ASML 🇳🇱, and probably one or two Japanese companies somewhere in there as well are very important for the world's tech

Please watch Asianometry to enlighten your knowledge.

You...are surprised about that? I don't understand. How could you not know?

@@lawrencefrost9063 ignorant college student (if you were referring to me not knowing about TSMC), but i may have worded my comment a bit weirdly. What I was trying to say is I was pleasantly surprised to know that one of the places I'm applying to for jobs (TSMC) is actually a pretty cool company.

Aren't they in Mongolia, though?

appreciate it

Thank yoh

thank you so much so tired of it 😭

History recap ends at 14:47 and fantasy scenarios begins

@@rcbrascan Seemed like reasonable scenarios to me.

Spoiler allert "it wont"

​@@msab4883Tell us how China is going to invade Taiwan, I don't mind spoilers.

"I really really hope this video ages well." So do I. The entire sane and civilised world does. Fingers crossed.

It won’t lol

@@Rishi123456789 sane is when they support the largest open air prison in the world

New Zealand.

papua new guinea

Brazil is pretty chill

when it comes to a war top powerful countries are actually not the best place to live.

​@@riderchallenge4250I disagree, if you are a smaller nation, you are still subject to waves of global events. For example, when France blockaded the tax haven Monaco, what could Monaco do? Same goes for Panama, Venezuela, and Cuba. Globalization has more or less connectioned all of us together so you are either on a drivers seat or in for the ride.

The Falklands, probably. 🇦🇷

The Falklands, probably. 🇬🇧🇦🇷

The British isles in World War 2

Taiwan should load these materials into some ICBMs to have a weapon that can make MAD a reality. If Beijing wants to militarily annex Taiwan they'll have to be willing to lose Beijing itself, Shanghai, and another 30 million population worth of citie

@@BlahVideosBlahBlah That's not really at all how nuclear weapons work. For starters, Taiwan would need ICBMs, which is no small thing to produce and maintain. Second, you don't just stick spent nuclear material onto a rocket to make nuclear weapons, they need (among other things) precise materials that are purpose made using a specific type of reactor - which the Taiwanese plants may not even be. And while there are types of reactors that can recycle spent fuel rods toward making enriched material, I'm pretty sure Taiwan doesn't operate *those* types of reactors, as they're widely banned due to nuclear non-proliferation treaties. Even if they did, getting that reaction going is something that takes time and expertise, and would almost assuredly be noticed right away. It'd be a more likely reality for Taiwan to just borrow an American nuclear weapon for deterrence than to make their own, quite frankly. And that's assuming the people living there would be willing to entertain the idea. Not sure what the opinion of the Taiwanese is on nuclear weapons.

​@@kullzaf6266Yeah that wasn't the United States that was one single person that was power hungry... think before you comment

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle You forget how bloodthirsty and jingoistic America was at the time. They practically let Bush invade Iraq. Also remember 'warrantless wiretapping'? I'd never imagine they'd let that pass- but it did. Democracy doesn't work if citizens don't participate, and only blaming the President- who people voted for- is just passing the buck. I admit there were Anti-War rallies, and the people who participated in those have my gratitude.

Yeah spent nuclear materials won't be nuclear bombs. But exploding it will scatter radioactive materials anyway rendering target irradiated and unsuitable to live in.

Nah, only people in Taiwan will, China's military industrial complex will make a lot of money though.

Threat of a conflict will remain for as long as China covets Taiwan.

Theyre not, but where I think Taiwan should look is in Geothermal energy. Taiwan is volcanic, and the mountains would mean that Taiwan would be able to keep these plants running until the last days of the invasion.