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nicoburnslast Tuesday at 2:30 PM1 replyview on HN

> presumably China would still want to keep selling those products and would have an interest in avoiding destroying those factories

There are rumours from seemingly credible sources that Taiwan has the TSMC factories (at least the ones located in Taiwan) rigged with explosives that they intend to trigger in case of invasion by China (as a disincentive against China invading). So China may well not have any say in the matter.


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pphyschlast Tuesday at 3:40 PM

Why would Taiwan destroying its own assets disincentivize annexation goals that have existed long before computer chips were produced there?

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