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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by fermienrico on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:09AM (#23189401)
Symbolic bickering?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/world/asia/taiwan-arms-sa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwa...

I don't know, I guess the entire field of diplomacy and international relations can be characterized as "symbolic bickering" - as opposed to "non-symbolic bickering" - which would involve dropping bombs over the other party's territory.

Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by tanilama on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:13AM (#23189430)
I don't think those arms sales are even remotely relevant.

Under what timeline a regime won't need to arm itself? Even China and Russia are armed near the border, or China/North Korea.