Taiwan and China thread.

You need to import the right people though. Little point importing people who only take from the system.

Pretty messed up how every country has built themselves on a system that requires endless population growth, then pushed for a lifestyle that flies in the face of it.
 
China knows all too well about death by thousand cuts. One vessel can undo months/years of infrastructure project. It would be interesting to see how much redundancy there is installed with the subsea cables. Just like the Houthi attack cost vs defence cost, taking out cables isn't sustainable for Europe.
 
Grim5 said:
Whats with Chinese ships constantly cutting undersea cables? It keeps happening..
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It's an easy "We accidentally dragged our anchor and didn't know there was a cable underneath" excuse.. something that any country can do for any motive.. in the Atlantic or pacific regions.

It could be clear that infrastructure threats are to be treated as attacks on the countries. That costs are levied back on the boat owners including confiscation of property to pay for the damage..
 
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It's an easy "We accidentally dragged our anchor and didn't know there was a cable underneath" excuse.. something that any country can do for any motive.. in the Atlantic or pacific regions.

It could be clear that infrastructure threats are to be treated as attacks on the countries. That costs are levied back on the boat owners including confiscation of property to pay for the damage..
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The boat may not be worth as much, these undersea cables can cost hundreds of millions or billions to build. I remember reading some years ago about a new cable that was run from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii and it cost $1 billion
 
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Looks like Hauwei wil be stuck on old tech for a while longer. SMIC is struggling with yields. They are struggling with 7nm yields already and while they claim they can produce 5nm, those yields are even worse and makes it uneconomical. The core of these issues are due to machinery - SMIC is stuck with old machinery that makes producing advanced nodes difficult

The article states SMIC's machinery is two generations behind what TSMC has access to, and SMIC is trying to use these old machines to make 5nm and 3nm but the yields are awful. SMIC says it's working on getting new machines to improve yields so that they can do mass production of 5nm in 2026. The CCP continues to provide massive sums of money to SMIC in the hopes it can develop these new machines

wccftech.com

SMIC To Remain On The 7nm Lithography Until At Least 2026, Limiting Huawei’s Advancement, Despite Receiving A Near-Unlimited Budget From The Government

Receiving a hefty budget from the government was not sufficient for SMIC to introduce advanced lithography, limiting Huawei’s options
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Why are high speed trains shaking?


One theory is the wheels can no longer be obtained from Germany, and local manufacturing is unable to produce wheels of the correct quality


 
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Wonder what the chances are that Beijing sees a trade war and decides it's not worth the effort negotiating normally so they opt for brutalising Taiwan's semiconductor industry to send a message?
 
StriderX said:
Wonder what the chances are that Beijing sees a trade war and decides it's not worth the effort negotiating normally so they opt for brutalising Taiwan's semiconductor industry to send a message?
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I think largely that would backfire, just hasten moves to relocate semiconductor industry from the region in general and make things more expensive for everyone while also doing more damage to that region's economy than it will to the US/West.
 
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Rroff said:
I think largely that would backfire, just hasten moves to relocate semiconductor industry from the region in general and make things more expensive for everyone while also doing more damage to that region's economy than it will to the US/West.
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Of course but not before it kicks america in the cajones and practically obliterates it's most valued companies as well as all those juicy pension plans that depend on it.

Obviously a short-medium term issue but if Beijing feels like it can't suffer a prolonged conflict over tariffs which causes the dread instability they loathe from their own citizens then I can see such an adventure being more palatable.
 
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dowie said:
Looks like the Danes are boarding the ship suspected of having cut the cable:

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Looks like even though it's a Chinese ship the captain was Russian and he's been working for the Russian military. Prior to the ship passing the area, a Russian warship passed through and identified the cables location, then sent an order to the Russian captain of the Chinese ship instructing him to drop his anchor at these coordinates and proceed through the area


euromaidanpress.com

WSJ: Russia orchestrated Chinese ship's Baltic cable sabotage - Euromaidan Press

A Chinese cargo ship's damage to vital Baltic Sea telecommunications cables was directed by Russian intelligence, marking another incident in Moscow's campaign of infrastructure attacks against NATO nations.
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This is just one of hundreds of other attacks in Europe carried out by so called Russian civilians acting on orders from the Kremlin. The Russian government loves it because using so called civilians lets them carry out attacks on the west and then claim its not an act of war

Perhaps all Russians in Western Europe need to be deported back to their ********
 
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