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I'm sure the participants in the 17th century Tulip mania bubble had explanations just as irrational as this. It's déjà vu all over again.

600,000+ American covid-19 casualties called, they'd like their lives back so they can emigrate to largely covid-free China

China has the 2nd largest (and according to some sources, probably the largest) consumer market on Earth, and is currently, by a large margin, the largest market for Cars, Smartphones, PCs, Fashion, and a host of other product categories. In 2020, China was the only major country where global corporations didn't see a significant decline in sales growth.

China is also, again by far, the largest e-commerce market and the largest mobile payments market on Earth.

I apologize for sounding like an infomercial, but these are basic economic facts that one would expect a reasonably well-read individual to be aware of. I would advise that in future you get better informed before coming here to advertise your ignorance.

Rest assured that HN's "it's all China's fault" crowd will be mysteriously unable to see this headline.

You're not alone. I read it twice. Still don't get it. I think he's using Google Translate or something

You're either delusional or extremely (emphasis on the 'extremely') divorced from reality. So losing out on a $10,000+ gain is 'a good thing' in your book?

There was a strong need for it. Rushing to express 'outrage' without taking time to actually sit down and think about what you're being 'outraged' about is becoming the bane of Western societies.

The article is talking about weaker public health 'surveillance'.

Try spending a bit more time thinking, and less time jumping to conclusions. I guess this is why they say 'reading' and 'comprehension' are two vastly different things.

It 'proves' that a lot of people, yours truly included, do not use frameworks

And I suggest you cut down on excessive reading of post-apocalyptic sci-fi novels.

Some of you need to learn the difference between 'authoritarian' and 'totalitarian'. Not that I blame you, I blame the American educational system

You're a former employee cum VC who has NEVER launched any actual technical product, and yet you believe you know more than an anti-vc startup founder with multiple successful products under his belt? Really? You actually expect us to trust your 'expertise' over his?

Re: Giving every Taiwanese citizen a MANPAD.

Of what use are MANPADs against the Ballistic Missile salvos which China is guaranteed to use in crippling Taiwan's air bases and air defense units? or against the J-10s, J-11s, Su-30s, & Su-35s which would be used to leisurely destroy aircrafts parked at crippled air bases and every single high value target on the Island? Of what use will they be against the literally thousands of Short Range Ballistic Missiles pointed at Taiwan. Or against the ASBMs & ASCMs that China has diligently developed or acquired for the sole purpose of sinking or are at the very least, significantly damaging large warships far off its coasts.

An Asia War will NOT be Afghanistan 2.0. It would be a war whose success would be determined almost entirely by the Air Force and the Navy, NOT by the Army.

You are viewing a war with China, a neer-peer power, through the lens of the Afghanistan & Iraq conflicts. You forget that Aircraft Carriers would be useless, planes would be fighting in highly contested airspace, and our soldiers would be fighting for the first time in modern history, without guaranteed air cover (a terrifying notion if you've ever being on the receiving end of an aerial attack).

Like they say, don't train your military to fight the last war. Cause the next major war will almost certainly not be like the last one, so fantasies of handing every Taiwanese a rifle, should remain completely speculative, save for the purpose of mounting an insurgency campaign against a possible occupying force.

P.S. Forgive me if I sounded pissed, just that I'm tired of armchair war enthusiasts who are seemingly unaware of what it would take to fight, let alone win, a war with a major power, and the extraordinary costs in personnel and materiel that fighting such a war would entail. Heck if it ever came to that, we'd have a hard time defeating India, not to talk of China.

I have a colleague who's a brilliant developer, but trying to wade through his codebase is literally like going through a session of Chinese water torture. And the 'comments' in his code are more mind-boggling than explanatory.