Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles

Re:Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles by totalZero on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:53AM (#28478243)

The US lacks broad-based public support for new wars.

Also, if China attacks Taiwan's semiconductor facilities aggressively and destructively right at the exposition of a conflict, there will be no strong incentive for the US to get involved because its largest interest in Taiwan will have been demolished.

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Re:Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles by innagadadavida on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:27PM (#28483802)

Isn’t it in taiwans best interest to do mutually assured destruction if China does that a like pointing a few missiles at china’s factories?

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Re:Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles by totalZero on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:04PM (#28545572)

Your suggestion implies an assurance of destruction, but China has a geographically broad industrial base with countless production facilities. PRC/ROC is not a symmetric confrontation and we have to view the obvious disadvantages of the ROC very clearly.

To my initial point, though...why would the US care about Taiwan in the morning if all of the fabs get destroyed overnight?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/05/how-to-win-americas-nex...

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