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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by gowld on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:59PM (#26640402)
PRC/CCP cares a lot about "face". "Taking over Taiwan" is much less important than saying they control Taiwan but grant local autonomy.
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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by monocasa on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:13PM (#26641238)
'Face' gets overblown. If all they cared about was face, they wouldn't be stacking the Hong Kong Parliament and taking the geopolitical capital hit for it.
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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by weswpg on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:37AM (#26647103)
The US military doesn't sell weaponry to HK nor does it have a defence treaty like they do with Taiwan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_Mutual_Defense...

imposing control on Hong Kong happened because it did not require high-stakes combat with a nuclear peer competitor

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