How Taiwan Will Stop China's Invasion

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[@levib0057]

I have a clarification: China can only claim to have the most boats of any Navy because it counts every single ship no matter how small. By displacement, the US Navy is twice the total size, and their total ship count is lower because they don't include any ship smaller than a destroyer. There's also all the ships owned by the US Marines that aren't included in the Navy's count

[@methcooker6402]

I think since China’s public boat construction it’s kind of legit they have the largest navy

[@reillycurran8508]

I remember reading somewhere that the largest measures of ownership of some millitary tech or asset will tend to be some order of the different branches of the US military before getting to different countries. I know it's the case for number of planes and munitions

[@robertbihn3005]

Plus their military hardware is a bunch of junk, their big aircraft carrier can't move without tug boats. They just lost a nuke sub and all aboard as it hit bottom. Their copied US fighter jets don't work right. Smaller things must have problems too, as contractors cut cost in production. They would be wiped out in the first weeks of real war with US and allies who have real weapons.

[@skynotaname2229]

@@icebaby6714 I hope for china's sake they don't use the same terrible steel that they've been building the tofu drege houses out of. This isn't sarcasm either, I seriously hope they look out for their servicemen by making sure their ships are built to the highest standard.

[@ic4192]

​@@icebaby6714"mega ships"? 😂😂😂 bro wtf that's not even a real term

[@tramsung8175]

As someone who leaves in Taiwan, we just want peace, whatever it looks like, might it be keeping the status quo, or independence. We just want to keep enjoying the achievements made in here

[@MrPeterPan]

Lives*

[@donnytonny730]

@@MrPeterPanto live is to leaf

[@Warawarayadnus]

Why did you “leave” taiwan?

[@TigraSpartan]

​@@Warawarayadnusbcause China

[@hermaeusmora2945]

If Taiwan just wants peace why do they keep taking US weapons?

[@Paragon._.]

Credit where credit is due, Taiwan's idea and movement to become one of the largest semiconductor manufacture during a time where computers where rising for foreign protection was smart.

[@waqqashanafi]

smart? now china wants it even more....

[@kingwing3203]

Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

[@thijsg717]

@@kingwing3203 Did they let you past the firewall?

[@Themapleleaforever]

@@thijsg717no he works for them

[@leerzeichn93]

​@@kingwing3203i mean, we westerners can use them and I am very sure China uses them too just like europe uses russian oil, just not labeled as russian

[@gwendolinechen6917]

As a Taiwanese with friends and families working for TSMC, I just want to mention that despite the many criticisms around the TSMC’s foundry in the US and the threat to US’s willingness to protect Taiwan in the event of an invasion, the foundry they built in the US is leagues behind the foundries in Taiwan in terms of what they make. TSMC effectively out-source the manufacturing of the last generation of semiconductors (4nm) to the US, so the foundries in Taiwan can focus on the next generation (3nm). By the time the first TSMC US foundry starts actually churning out semiconductors (estimate to be 2025), the foundry in Taiwan is going to be two generations ahead (2nm). Even with the newly announced second US foundry and its 3nm manufacturing ability which is shooting to start production in 2026, there are still years before it starts to actually join the supply chain and catches up to what Taiwan’s foundries have already been making right now, which are currently used in the iPhone 15 series. Most of the criticisms coming from inside the TSMC itself is on the fact that manufacturing in the US will drastically increase the cost, and the integration of US work culture and Taiwanese management is not going to go well. (The production process of semiconductors requires 24/7 monitoring, which means that most of the engineers in TSMC are, though well-compensated, highly over-worked.) These worries have been proven to be true from the fact that the US foundry’s production timeline has been delayed many times.

[@MunkeyBrewster]

I think that's just good buiness, to make the market bigger is a benefit to Taiwan. But if you let another business/country become better than the founder, you lose your tactical edge. This assumption that Taiwan will be ahead 2 generations does forget to take into consideration the assumed risk that comes with being inventive. There is a chance the Taiwan company takes a big hit to start producing 2nm chips, but they have decided the luxury product companies will more than pay for any disruption they might find.

[@persona2grata]

Taiwan may start two generations ahead, both of which I would add will have unknown yields and stability in production as designs rapidly close in on quantum tunneling complications, but frankly it's doubtful they will remain generations behind, especially considering the technology roadmap for silicone is coming to an end with as yet no clear next generation technology to replace it. The US and Europe need a hedge against the worst case scenario, and have both the resources and will to build such. TSMC has done an incredible job, and I hope it remains the dominant market player for decades to come because it is cost effective and efficient, but it would be foolish in the extreme to think the US is incapable of building security into its technology pipeline by building capacity. There will be costs, there will be pain, but it will happen, because it must happen.

[@skullhart]

​@MunkeyBrewster Unfortunately the US doesn't possess the work ethic and process improvement required to step forward as efficiently as the Taiwanese. Their culture is unified, not divided up for political purposes either.

[@persona2grata]

@@skullhart Mm, agree to disagree. I don't think people making that bet in the past saw dividends on the sentiment. Of course, every situation is a new and unique circumstance, but I see no reason to be pessimistic about our chances. Still, only time will tell I suppose.

[@skullhart]

@persona2grata I worked in several aerospace manufacturing companies. We utilized an ACE (achieving competitive excellence) model which was essentially 6 sigma. The plants in China consistently made ACE gold when our facilities could BARELY even meet the minimum criteria. Their work ethic and consistency absolutely destroyed any plant we had in the US or EU. Our US employees earned over 2x the compensation as well. So this is one example I can personally confirm as 100% true. Consider also why so many other products are made in China and overseas. AND now the largest auto manufacturer is in China.

[@andyyang5234]

The mastermind behind Taiwan's semiconducter plan was then-minister of economic Affairs Yun-suan Sun and former RCA engineer Wen-Yuan Pan. Sun was tasked by then-premier Chiang Ching-kuo to identify a technological field that would suit Taiwan, and over one breakfast in 1974, Pan persuded Sun that Semiconductors were the way to go. Sun used his position as Minister to seek out and persude talents (especially Taiwanese working abroad) to join the cause, while Pan used his old contacts at RCA to ink a 10 year deal that would allow Taiwan to manufacture low-end chips for RCA televisions. These efforts culminated in Taiwan's first domestic 3-in silicon wafer in 1977. UMC and TSMC entered the picture much later, with UMC first in 1980, and TSMC later in 1985. Morris Chang, as the video stated, was the one that introduced the concept of a fab, but he was not really as prominent in Taiwan's semicon history as the video suggests. By the time TSMC entered production, Taiwan was already a thriving chip manufacturing hub with UMC at the helm. Therefore Pan is usually considered the father of Taiwanese IC industry, not Morris Chang, despite Chang's outsized contributions to Taiwan's position today.

[@lasthope909]

Hey great info in this comment! Are you aware of any videos like real life lore that talk about this kind of info?

[@jaredf6205]

Check out the book Chip War if you haven't read it yet.

[@mycelia_ow]

@@lasthope909 There's a lot of documentary style videos about this on KZbin

[@cheeksakimbo6591]

10/10 comment thank you!

[@JmKrokY]

Cool

[@maximusoptimusTECH]

This video is exactly what I’m trying to explain every time someone brings up the topic of China invading Taiwan. If you remember the chip shortage during COVID you know what even a very tiny disruption of that supply chain can cause. Now imagine if 60-90% of all chip production suddenly gone, that would surely be an economic catastrophe never seen before and hardly even imaginable…

[@tomfoolery5680]

I'm prepared to read a map and wash my own dishes again. In fact, I think it would be a good idea.

[@boomynote]

@@tomfoolery5680 I get what you’re saying and don’t disagree but it’s not like existing electronics would magically stop working. Nobody really NEEDS to get new electronics every year like new iPhones each year. It would have an economic impact buts it’s not like we’d be sent to the Stone Age the way people seem to think

[@lagrangewei]

is the chip shortage due to taiwan exporting less chip... or china? this is what most people fail to understand, China produce almost as many chip as Taiwan does... China produce more chip than US does... world has been lied to...

[@sagestrings869]

@@lagrangewei >_> what where on qanon did you source that information

[@CybreSmee]

wtf are you talking about, China imports most of its microtechnology from the States. They just build cheap production-line garbage there, not invent anything of value.

[@soccernoodle17x]

I am an asian American, born in California but I travel between Taiwan and the us quite often. Although my family is from Hong Kong, many of my relatives live in Taiwan. From my understanding, most people just dont really want to deal with china. They want things to continue as they are, they’re content not being completely independent as long as china doesn’t start forcing anything upon them.

[@samuelspace101]

Sadly I don’t think Xi Jinping has the same ideals

[@David-ud9ju]

But that ambivalence is the problem. This status quo isn't even really legal. Until Taiwan declares independence properly, China will always have a right to assert their control over it. If you really want peace, you have to act.

[@Naples-Florida]

This is by far the most comprehensive explanation of the conflict between the PRC and ROC.

[@Grak70]

I love how every stock video of a fab in this, even the 300mm footage, is practically ancient history from a semiconductor perspective. The unspoken truth of any advanced fab is how secretive they are. Even layout or equipment vendor labels would suggest certain details about design and technology that advanced fabs need to keep secret.

[@aaardvaaark]

If you count Intel's current fabs as not being ancient (which you may or may not) then LTT did a video of inside a current Intel fab, and it looked similar to these videos.

[@dijital4801]

@@aaardvaaark they were only allowed in little bits and loads of it was blurred anyways

[@MauricioGarcia-yv2in]

What's your point..?? How do you spell DUH..?

[@russellstyles5381]

Even much more minor stuff is protected. You can't film the place in the M&M factory that prints the "M".

[@Grak70]

@@aaardvaaark I work in a fab, thanks. I know what I’m looking at here. I could probably tell you what half these things do just looking at the face plate and footprint. This is all pretty old stuff.

[@amorencinteroph3428]

To be fair to the weakening of the Silicon Shield, Europe also believed that the economic relationship with Russian gas would deter Russia from aggression, and that has failed abysmally.

[@atlasreturns1793]

Taiwans near semiconductor monopoly is magnitudes more important to the global economy than Russias gas. You can very easily drill for fossils if you have the deposits but the manufacturing of semi-conductors can take years to decades to develop. We see the EU and US just now slowly starting to ramp up production again but even with imported technology it will take forever to create significant manufacturing hubs. And even they'll be very unlikely even remotely competitive to Taiwan for a long time. If China would take over Taiwan tomorrow they would control more than 75% of all semi-conductor manufacturing, without most developed countries having an alternative for a very long time. This would give China near infinite economic leverage, like they could practically disarm the US military this way. So for the moment it isn't just an economic relation but pretty much the technological independence of the West. And that's not a case for chance for any rational world leader.

[@2Evil2Hope]

You have that backwards with Russia who depended on the European market and then getting slowly cut out with the emergence of Ukraine's gas and oil industries.

[@bobsmith3983]

@@atlasreturns1793 Huawei's new Mate 60 Pro proves that Taiwan is not indispensable and will become less relevant as China advances it semiconductor lithography processes. You can't be #1 forever as the West and Taiwan is finding out the hard way.

[@bumpty9830]

You've missed some important news. Putin wanted peace, Zelensky refused. The US war machine, of which Zelensky is puppet, is the problem both in Ukraine and in Taiwan.

[@leandersearle5094]

@@bobsmith3983 Hello from the China Uncensored comment section, mr. bot.

[@richardkranium2944]

Binge watching this series all day. Damn, earphone at work as well. There’s a well laid out explanation of problems in these.

[@spirolabsmontreal637]

You do a great job to present and inform. Thannks for the work.

[@yyy6168]

I'm a taiwanese who never left this place since the day I was born, I have to say that we are truly not prepared for a war, our generation had no experiences, and the most confusing thing for us is that, we don't even know what our identity truly is, people who support independence are considered "radical" somehow according to the society by and large, and there's also people claiming themselves as people of the ROC, which whether appeal to peace with china or just want to reconquer the lost land(or you just reckon that we cannot deny what was written in the constitution); of course, whoever we are, most people are pacifists and don't want the war to affect our lives, some even ignoring the likelihood for it to occur... I really hope that the war is just nothing but a boast, but if it were to happen, I wish all taiwanese can stand up for themselves just for the sake of protecting our homeland.

[@user-hd4tu7ss2k]

你觉得有多少人会为台独而战，即使支持台独的人

[@legendaryclarity]

Hi, are there channels you would recommend to show what life in Taiwan is like?

[@sonneh86]

The same thing applied to Ukraine. A large portion of them considered themselves Russian, as it was the language they spoke. But from the day rockets start hitting your home, you'll know which team you're on.

[@TechieWidget]

As an overseas Chinese trying to understand the complexity of PRC/ROC issue, the ROC/Taiwan side imo always looks like it is two-faced and filled with contradictions that involves understanding Taiwanese politics. I get headaches thinking about their politicians when they say they are not China to most of the world, and they say they are the real China to countries like Haiti and Guatemala; as if they can’t make up their mind on who they are or want to be.

[@dodoyoyo759]

Wait, but doesnt your passport say ROC?

[@SWANNwillSUFFICE]

The new American foundries aren't meant to be able to replace Taiwan. They only aim to reduce the blow if Taiwan is invaded and prevent the US from being totally screwed in the short-term. Like you said Taiwan will always be the producers of the most advanced nodes so there is no such thing as replacing them outright - therefore their security is still strategically paramount to the US and EU.

[@defeatSpace]

It's American tech, if China invades America burns everything down before defending their friends.

[@TheMiracleMatter]

It's also a lot better if the war for Taiwan lasts for a while that the US military whose ever more reliant on semiconductor technology to not have their own means supplying themselves be so vulnerable !

[@mefobills279]

​@@TheMiracleMatterTSMC gambled on ASML. They also cluster their suppliers. Any technology leader can be fast followed or copied.

[@LtdJorge]

@@mefobills279everyone gambled on ASML, lol. They’re the only producer of EUV machines in the world.

[@jamesaritchie1]

This is exactly why the US has no business at all interfering. Until and unless everyone can produce the most advanced chips, war after war is inevitable. Screw what is paramount to the US or the EU. Unless we start thinking about what paramount to everyone is, to the entire world, we will continually fall into war after war after war until someone gets tired of losing and resorts to nuclear weapons. Or worse., and there are things worse than nuclear weapons.

[@georgebowman1060]

This is an Informative, well done, and well thought 💭🤔 out video with correct maps and charts to make it interesting. This person did his research and gives me more in-depth understanding on the importance of Taiwan on a global scale, the battle for Taiwan and howTaiwan can defend itself.

[@Jaster832]

Considering that the ROC was in power in China before the rise of the PRC Taiwan is correct in their assertion that the mainland is who is in a state of rebellion, not the island of Taiwan. Historically having a government in exile is not a unique situation, and they do sometimes return to power.

[@fullcircle8231]

Note, while China's navy has surpassed the U.S. in total number of ships.... many of them are small costal patrol vessels, vessels that would play exactly zero role in a Taiwan invasion. In terms of tonnage, the US still outclasses China by nearly threefold

[@Ghettofinger]

They wouldn't play "no role" in the invasion, but their role would be limited to defending landing ships probably, the Taiwan strait is quite shallow and has a length of 100 miles to Taiwan, perfect for protection duty. The US will not go into the strait, the smaller vessels don't have the range, weaponry, and armor to engage the US ocean faring ships, so it won't be counted as part of the equipment the US has to worry about.

[@darthvadeth6290]

Note, if a war between China and Taiwan happens, it will be around China's "coast". So their "costal" fleet is perfectly designed for that 😂 Of course, if US wants to enter a total war with China next to the Chinese coast, I think China would welcome the chance to eradicate US influence from Asia once and for all ❤😂

[@bzipoli]

​@@Ghettofingeri believe they will be vital. most of the vessels are just not for blue waters, the strait is absolutely fine for them on regular weather (and no one is doing an invasion during a typhoon, monsoon or something). for the japanese islands they would have a bit of trouble i guess

[@DK-ev9dg]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂any more boasting? Ask taliban

[@scottwebb4722]

@@Ghettofinger The US is an ocean away, whereas Taiwan is basically at China's doorstep. Should Israel's war spill over into the region as a whole, and combined with having to give most of the weapon and ammo stocks to Ukraine, don't count on Taiwan getting undivided attention from the West. And what about the land based anti-ship missiles China has? I believe it is the cardinal sin in war to underestimate your opponent. Look at what happened to Russia and Israel.

[@DarthNoshitam]

Gotta love the pivot from "TikTok is part of China's digital warfare arsenal" to "Use NordVPN to access TikTok" 😂

[@smeagle3295]

IKR. Makes you question the motives of the channel as a whole after that.

[@icecold5707]

True, I’m liking this channel less and less…

[@Kriegerkann1]

​@@icecold5707why

[@4c696e]

China has its own server for tik tok called douyin, china only.

[@blackheart909]

@@icecold5707 99% American propaganda

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

This video made me think about one of my fears waking up one day and seeing “Taiwan” trending. Not only for my han Chinese ethnic group, but also the indigenous people of the island. Our culture and accent has always been distinguishable from a mainland Chinese person, but most foreigners think we are all grouped together. I miss my culture being a international student that is actually from the US and people know I’m also American but I continue to hold on my Taiwanese identity whenever I can.

[@onajournal]

Taiwan is part of China, read Potsdam Declaration and Carol Declaration. And many Taiwanese Han were immigrated from the mainland China for a fact.

[@kingwing3203]

It’s not an invasion, it’s a unification. Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

[@kuroneko77716]

@@kingwing3203 ok shill

[@sy1ridere]

Foreigners group them together because Taiwanese are 95% han Chinese by blood, even if they created their own culture and mixed with some indigenous folk. It doesn’t help that the UN doesn’t recognize Taiwan either. Hope it isn’t invaded tho

[@DiCelloPiano]

This was really well done , thanks for putting this together :)

[@supersardonic1179]

The original title is "How Taiwan Will Stop China's Invasion" for the lore masters out there.

[@marc_frank]

still is

[@Nenufort]

@@marc_frank It might not be in the future. OP is a visionary.

[@dabomb199715]

I only watched this video in anticipation of a title change

[@Karlach_]

KZbin plays Tik Tok ads and Tik Tok is owned by the CCP. Thus the CCP partially controls KZbin. You can never be sure when KZbin won't bow under the pressure it's Chinese masters are exerting upon it.

[@tokebak4291]

China have the rights to defend itself from Taiwan terrorists groups. Just like Israel they shouldnt be forced to negociate with terrorists. China need to keep protecting its sovereignty over Taiwan terrorists.

[@lllPlatinumlll]

I remember being taught that many factors of the global economy were designed to make war much more difficult. The transistor factories location makes war difficult, it is by design.

[@Loeffellux]

well, they said the same things about Germany and other states importing much of their energy from Russia. But now the official position seems to be "that was really dumb, we should've never been reliant on Russia". It's always good when it works out well but when it doesn't it was always a bad plan from the start. Whether this applies to this situation only time will tell

[@ericsilver9401]

@@Loeffelluxyou should be a politician! you managed to say nothing in all that text

[@Loeffellux]

@@ericsilver9401 yikes, some people are just allegric to nuance, I guess

[@Chedring]

Theoretically, if you make yourself a valuable trade partner to all sides, you are less likely to be invaded. However, we are currently seeing that plan fall through in a few different places. Hell, just look at Hawaii.

[@mr_yoru5834]

​@Loeffellux From that perspective, there's no such thing as a good plan. All plans will eventually come undone. These policies kept relative peace between the major world economies for decades, increased prosperity, and allowed diplomacy between countries who had been enemies for centuries. They were not bad plans.

[@MyPencilBroke]

As a Dutchie I can relate to the TSMC shield, we have their machine supplier ASML, no one's touching Eindhoven.

[@qworky902]

It was quite interesting in gradschool, which was majority chinese and Taiwanese, how the two groups never socialized - at all - not for a single dinner or party throughout the whole 1.5 year program. In class, they only worked together if the professors assigned particular groups. Otherwise not. Also, the Taiwanese women were easy to notice because their clothing, hair, and makeup was more often more western than the mainland chinese. The Chinese women even commented that the Taiwanese women always dressed "like japanese".

[@docilecatfish1370]

It’s very hard to imagine Japan, SEA, India will just sit idly by while China conducts its invasion of Taiwan. They have territorial disputes with China too.

[@PierreDennis]

Japan: "Round 2 Modaf*ckas!"

[@lvjinbin28]

The CCP was anti-American and anti-Soviet in the 1960s. PLA bombarded Taiwan’s Kinmen for 21 years from 1958 to 1979. CCP attacked India in 1962, armed Vietcong against US 1964 to 1975, funded communist revolutions in all Asia, Africa and Latin America, intervened in the Macau riots in 1966, intervened in the Hong Kong riots in 1967, and attacked the Soviet Union in 1969. It is difficult to imagine that China will only attack Taiwan, instead of makeing trouble in Ukraine, Israel, Cuba, Korea, Japan at the same time as it did in the 1960s?

[@taiwandxt6493]

Yeah, because if they do successfully conquer Taiwan, they would exert authority over Taiwan's administrative claims in the South China Sea, which is a no-no.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Japan is heavily militarizing itself and screaming for an excuse to go back to its old warrior ways to lift itself out of economic doldrums.

[@khunmikeon858]

Japan would not be happy since Japan is occupied by the USA since WW2. Japan is not independent.

[@MajicMiranda]

The silicon shield idea of Taiwan is very reminiscent of the part of the book "Foundation," specifically the Four Kingdoms that surround Terminus. None of those four kingdoms can subjugate the foundation for fear of reprisal from the others, because if any one kingdom took over Terminus, the other three would unify against them,

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

Wonder if it really is a shield if they're moving TSMC to the US. Besides, didnt the US promise to destroy TSMC in Taiwan in any Chinese invasion? Nice friends they have

[@cat-vv9xb]

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 That assumes Taiwan hasn't said themselves they would rather destroy TSMC just to make sure China didn't benefit from it. So yes, the US is merely standing in solidarity with Taiwan against the violent evil that is China.

[@thomgizziz]

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 Did you just get that you didn't understand what you were talking about and you said something really dumb? Or are you going to pretend you were always right and double down on your dumb somehow? It is going to be the second one isn't it?

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

@@cat-vv9xb lol quit lying. Taiwan leadership was shocked by the US statement

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

@@thomgizziz you're the one who literally can't read English nor reply with a legitimate argument. Insanity plea isn't gonna work when they take you away bruh

[@andycahill5936]

Great video! Very detailed and comprehensive! Thanks

[@zimti7390]

How can Taiwan be a rogue province of the PRC if it was never part of the PRC

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

It is if you see yourself as the legitimate inheriter of all China, assuming Taiwan Island is part of the Chinese territory, and that there can only be one. That's a lot of assumption.

[@shadowwolf9267]

I love the use of Civ 6 symbols for units and map districts. Been playing it a lot lately and they weirdly helped contextualize what was being said that much easier.

[@minrathejunglist]

Lol I was thinking the same thing xD

[@racecarrik]

Civ 6 might just be a game, but it certainly helped me understand a decent amount of global politics 😅

[@dukeon]

Been playing that franchise since Civ 1! As a teen it taught me so much 🤓

[@theinsultingfrenchman5052]

Only ever played Civ V, have played that game for several years. Still one of my favorite games!

[@aggroknight4259]

Maybe instead of relying on funny symbols from popular video games to show what he's talking about, the author could've just condensed his points while writing the video, so that it didn't end up as word salad.

[@BuiHieuDong]

This is such an advantageful glitch for Taiwan, hopefully the developers won't be patching this glitch so soon.

[@War4Skills]

That is such a funny comment!

[@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female]

what developer? God?

[@GearheadK20C4]

Advantageful? You mean advantageous?

[@Musicdudeyoutub]

Advantagable might be the right word here

[@supersardonic1179]

Unfortunately Unity's ToS retroactively charges a sum of 20% revenue for any updates made and therefore this patch will be removed soon.

[@joshuagonzalez3249]

I have to say, this video is pretty thorough and accurate for the most part.

[@hoi-polloi1863]

It would be hilarious if the PRC "surrendered" to Taiwan. "Okay you win, let's be a democracy. Now we'll have a nationwide vote on how to organize our government."

[@justinchen8241]

Semiconductor industry is not just another industry that you can easily rebuild elsewhere in the world. 1) it relies on tens thousands of highly trained engineers and IP which are currently possessed by Taiwan especially TSMC. Taiwan has world most complete semiconductor ecosystem 2) it’s capital intensive. Each plant costs upwards of $10 billion and 2 years to build. The new TSMC Arizona plant is not going to be financially profitable due to various reasons. It is projected to have output of 20,000 chips per month whereas total TSMC output is 1,200,000 per month. It will take the world hundreds of billions dollars and a decade to replace what is lost in Taiwan

[@veduci22]

It's 20,000 wafers per month, 20,000 chips per month is a joke. Also the damage to Chinese economy that the invasion of Taiwan would bring will be much bigger than some semiconductor crisis... It's bad when you have limited supply of newest microchips but when you can't import coal to generate electricity or food to feed the people it's existential problem.

[@bobahop1232]

Holy shit i didnt know that

[@pupawupagus]

thank you for the break down! i knew making my stupid iphone would become prohibitively expensive for a rube like me due to nebulous “supply chain issues,” and that’s where my knowledge ended- until i found you 😃

[@lancelowery4027]

Those foundries are rigged to blow in the event of an invasion. Almost guaranteed and China probably knows it.

[@kingwing3203]

Taiwan Province of China is now divided by warlords, which cannot change its status as a province of China. Since mainland China cannot use chips from Taiwan Province, no one can use them.

[@brinn.i]

As a Chinese, I really really hope that China chooses peace over a full-on war and lets Taiwan decide its future for itself. To any Taiwanese out there, I'm sorry that you guys have to deal with this BS. I promise we're not all bad. I hope it gets better soon

[@Ydrakar]

You have a chance as chinese youth to make a change when the old generations move on. As an american I’m hopeful for the future of china’s people. Health to you.

[@sfzz8517]

@@Ydrakar In fact, young people are more radical than older individuals. Young people believe that China can defeat the United States in Taiwan.

[@Ydrakar]

@@sfzz8517 I’ve no illusions in that regard. There is an active attempt to galvanize nationalism in China by the CCP currently. That said, there are also youth that know what is really going on on the world stage, beyond what media censorship would like them to know. I’m hopeful, but it certainly won’t be easy.

[@pithyginger6371]

Thank you for understanding!!!

[@nevyn_karres]

I hope you are behind a VPN. Oh of course you are, otherwise you would not be on youtube.

[@Encathar]

Brilliant video! Wish they taught subjects in this manner in China! I would be listening jaw-dropping the entire 45mins! :)

[@barryoneill_official]

Fabulous information and insight.

[@walterzagieboylo6802]

A strict embargo by naval encirclement is more likely than invasion. Could the US with Taiwan overcome such an embargo? That is the question.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Taiwan airlift...

[@matthewdean8070]

100%...All there ships are gasoline powered (their only "nuclear" submarine just went boom if they even had one) and 50% of their military equipment is trash or just doesn't work properly. They would start of strong but crumble quickly, target their full ships and the rest become sitting ducks.

[@walterzagieboylo6802]

That’s a great response. Keeping the ships fueled shouldn’t be such a problem as Taiwan is so close to China. Would the US actually start to sink the “sitting ducks”? I wonder. More likely possibly that Taiwan would attack the mainland with missiles. Not sure.

[@Orbitalresonancefrequencies]

@@walterzagieboylo6802Our navy could start an embargo too, China is an export orientated economy (it’s been the largest exporting country since 2009) and when that is cut off the Chinese economy will suffer greatly.

[@issaali1812]

​@@Orbitalresonancefrequenciesbruh how will you do that though isn't China big like litterly big it has other areas that it can export

[@holeshe]

As a Taiwanese... constitutionally, we are claiming China as part of ROC... But big, BUT as a Taiwanese, we don't care about unification, as korean north south... We just want our way of life to go on as normal, as we did before the ROC came to Taiwan, before the Japanese, Qing Dynasty，Ming Dynasty，Dutch, Spanish，or before Portuguese name us Formosa! We just want our way of life to go on.

[@Hayatiu]

Then why not leave Taiwan because the land belongs to qing dynasty and its successor

[@davidthebuilder8702]

Your Chinese ethnically, why just not say that? Is that hard? I mean there are Two China’s, one totalitarian and one democratic. You are omitting 3000 years just because the commies won in mainland China…..

[@T.O.A.D.U.K]

For the PRC it makes no sense to try and take Taiwan, apart from ego. Long live Taiwan, it's people and their hard fought freedom and democracy.

[@ianhud12]

No, it doesn't.@@Hayatiu

[@jeffhsu7027]

⁠@@HayatiuROC is the rightful successor to the Qing. Who the hell are you?

[@jimlawton4184]

I love the way you say compulsorary twice with such confidence, I actually had to check. It’s compulsory 😅

[@pds3285]

Wow is this video really well made or what. Great job folks, extremely informative.

[@ckmichael8]

It is worth noting that before the 2020 Taiwan election, the KMT's presidential candidate had higher popularity then the current Taiwan DPP president, and the KMT candidate has pretty close ties with China and is also very pro-China, it is expected that if he was elected, a "peaceful" reunification between Taiwan and China would be further pushed. However, it is the 2019 black swan chain of political "events" in Hong Kong that has turned fhe whole Taiwan's political tide against China. The 2019 series of "civil unrest" or "riot", depending on your political perspective, has showed Taiwanese how will the Chinese government treat them if they proceed with the reunification with China, causing the public opinion to drastically change and resulting in that a peaceful "reunification" between Taiwan and China become extremely unlikely in the future.

[@mikefixac]

Great point. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the statistics as to why a majority of Taiwanese now don't want to be part of mainland China.

[@johnflux1]

Exact same thing happened in philippines. They practically had a popular pro-China government and sentiment, and almost anti-US. Then China started invading some of their little islands and claiming that the whole of that sea belonged to them, and even shot at them. Philippines government is now anti-China and have half a dozen new US bases and ready to team up with Taiwan.

[@derek8564]

There is no RE-unification , Taiwan has never been part of China

[@leqiaop1840]

@@mikefixac every human has a programmable brain.

[@LonelyStardefender]

I mean,the CCP has made terrible choices in the handing of covid and even their own people are done with it at their government's bs The Question tho,is if that's enough to wake up the masses and abandon communism entirely or if they will just pick another dictator Seriously,being punished for talking bad about the goverment is probably the sickest thing and I don't see why they put up with it

[@mf202984408]

An anchorman of a Taiwan TV politic talk show said that before Chiangkaishek retreated to Taiwan, he was looking at both Taiwan and Hainan, and he had difficulty deciding which island to choose for his retreat. So, he visited a feng-shui master, who told him to choose Taiwan instead of Hainan, as Taiwan, facing the Mainland of China with its back, will never be taken by forces from the Mainland.

[@righthandstep5]

Nice! Chose wisely!

[@TheVineOfChristLives]

PHL will be invaded first and used as a platform to Island hop into Southern Taiwan and Taiwan will be unable to do much about it. It’s too easy to invade and control the Philippines.

[@yuluoxianjun]

fake news of BBC .Indeed Taiwan stomach is towards China mainland.Its mountains all towards USA side.And KMT always want to take mainland back again,but CPC keep strong,KMT then give up go back to mainland.

[@suicidalbanananana]

@@TheVineOfChristLives You fail to realize that China prefers good relations with everyone (for trade reasons) over conflict. Stop believing the drama of some American media & politicians, China has no intention of taking Taiwan, they were just flexing because Trump grossly offended them & they have an agreement with America about Taiwan that they were hinting at ending (while likely never actually having intended to end it, but just flexing because they can) To be blunt you should learn more about your country's history before you start putting labels on or making assumptions about other countries. Long story short China knows that attacking Taiwan or anyone else would just hurt their bottom line, and they prefer money over wars. EU calmed them down again pretty quickly when your orange moron pissed them off, there's nothing going on at the moment besides in the heads of some oddball 'patriots' in America.

[@dontpanic716]

​@@TheVineOfChristLivesif the Phillipines get invaded why wouldn't a blockade of China not be the response? They would run out of oil to run the ships before they even looked at taiwan

[@MunkeyBrewster]

Some introductory graphics might help the clarity of the beginning words. I had to rewind 3 times to hear the date you were trying to say. Not that it's an issue, I just think it would be nice to have.

[@jayearnhardt9790]

Thank you i have a much better understanding of the problem

[@Succulents4life]

It’s crazy how you can continuously make almost hour long videos and not have any filler

[@lesterwilliamsjr649]

Realifelore sometimes makes me scared about the future but at the same time the channel helps me appreciate living in the Bahamas.

[@Foundations01]

Next video: How the Bahamas are on the BRINK of COLLAPSE

[@TheSeanHyden]

You should probably not look up climate change and sea level rise then. It doesn't look good for the Bahamas tbh

[@Saltyahole]

@@TheSeanHydenalways gotta be afraid of something, eh 🙄

[@xLuis89x]

@dpassch7 I also live right next to venezuela and my city is very close by, so their illegal inmigrants have swarmed in and now my city has a spike of crime rates...

[@recoil53]

@@TheSeanHyden And ocean acidification, ocean temperatures, or coral reef die offs.

[@TheSwiftMagician]

Very educational video! I lived in Taiwan for two years as a missionary. It was under martial law back then, so I was well aware of the risks. This video helps me understand the situation, if I ever went back. Thanks.

[@rieyuki]

The White Terror has been over for decades now.

[@andrewlau611]

@RealLifeLore: At 27:50, you've accidentally substituted the logo for AMD with that of AMP, an Australian financial services company.

[@dontmindme8709]

One pretty safe renewable energy source that Taiwan might be able to tap into is *geothermal energy.* They are a volcanic island with a lot of geothermal activity, so at least at an initial glance this could be their best bet. I hope they can become self sufficient in energy in the future! For such a modernized and progressive country, it's a real shame to see that they still have such a reliance on coal.

[@darthvadeth6290]

1. Taiwan isn't not a country according to UN, US, Australia, India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, France, Vietnam, etc...how delusional and ignorant are the English audience of KZbin that I constantly see this blatant mistake being made in the comment section, yet almost nobody corrects them. It really shows the echo chamber effect 😂 2. Also, I think nuclear energy is better.

[@meeksource4047]

@@darthvadeth6290 Regardless of who acknowledges it as such, Taiwan is de facto a country even if not de jure. It cannot be denied that the ROC is autonomous of the PRC, even if each views the other as illegitimate.

[@hunterjackson802]

@@darthvadeth6290 1.) you are an arrogant asshole. 2.) you would be right technically and it’s blatantly obvious so most people look past it because… 3.) diplomatically speaking no country recognizes Taiwan due to chinas history of genociding millions at no expense. So its easier to keep the game going because communists are greedy and if on paper its theirs they are happy. 4.) in reality on the ground, on the island they are a free and fair, independent state, that has no need for china.

[@bzipoli]

​@@darthvadeth6290people like you need to read about the Asch's conformity experiment

[@sp00kypumpk1n]

@@darthvadeth6290 1: I'm pretty sure most people are aware that Taiwan is unrecognized, but let's be honest, it's just easier to call it a country, and it is a de-facto country anyways. 2: I think geothermal is interesting to look into; Iceland made it work. Sure, Iceland is a much smaller country, but I think it is an option that should be considered.

[@Shoelessjoe78]

It's almost like people don't want to live under Authoritarian rule... In fact they would like a little freedom in their economic decisions.

[@the0ne809]

definitely. if China were democratic by now, probably Taiwan wouldn't be so hesitant to join. They saw what happened to Hong Kong.

[@mycelia_ow]

Nope, freedom in general not only "economic" freedom. It's called personal liberty. Mainland China has a surprising amount of economic freedom, companies, jobs, services, etc. What they have none of is personal freedom.

[@vlhc4642]

People want to live under whatever they're told they want to live under, Taiwan was authoritarian up until 1989.

[@thisismonitor4099]

It should also be noted that whilst the PRC does indeed have a huge army, much of it is needed simply to maintain the border. Furthermore, Taiwan probably does have nuke capability right now if only a couple of warhead equivalents.

[@anthonyfonant8937]

The transition to the NordVpN ad was smooth !

[@Zero_Zero_Zero_Zero]

These comments wow. There's just so much to learn from the people of Taiwan. They've done so much with every resource available. It's really humbling to read. Thank you all for sharing.

[@LittleDraco]

Came to see war tactics and politcs, left with massive knowledge regarding importance of TSMC and semiconductors. I just love this channel that covers everything and not just 1 sector.

[@sylvainfalquet6350]

It's interesting that both those things aren't mutually exclusive - like he mentions, Taiwan's economic defense by being a critical producer of semiconductors provides the "silicon shield".

[@cindernubblebutt1340]

Let's remember that most of China's newer (last 20 years) weapons, equipment, ships, training and tactics and even strategic thinking are all largely untested in combat. Especially in the area of combined air/naval combat. Whereas US equipment has been combat tested and proven. And if China invades Taiwan, it will likely suffer such economic losses that even gaining Taiwan (although I doubt they would obtain the chip manufacturing facilities intact or even worth salvaging) would be a losing proposition given the price tag would be in the billions if not trillions. It would also likely interrupt their military supply chain. Throw the nearly unilateral international opposition to the aggression in Ukraine in and the cost benefit analysis still weighs heavily against invasion.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Yeah but they were designed by scientific method so I wouldn’t like to bet against it. 😂

[@biazacha]

Yep people really underestimate how quickly the global powers would thrown Ukraine under the bus if that meant to stale any attempts from China; they wouldn’t be seeing only US taking action against them if they ever try to touch not only Taiwan but a good chunk of islands neighboring the Mainland.

[@Mutiny960]

@@MrWhitmen1981 Don't give a damn about scientific method and I'm a scientist. We have all these failed experiments because real-life rarely works like theory. We always forget some variable or there is an unknown variable that we didn't know was a problem until testing. I'd bet against their untested designs winning anything 9 times out of 10

[@user-km2wd3kz4g]

You are right

[@J56609]

The problem is that the ccp is basically like a religious cult like the thugs who run Iran. These kind of people have absolute power and they believe their own propaganda, or at least toe the party line to keep from getting disappeared. Horrible concoction!

[@professorb3744]

8:13 “guess what kind of bug I caught” “No, you guess first “

[@user-dc5rw9tq4c]

Being a Taiwanese I truly love you so much. Let more people know our circumstances. and issues

[@kostakatsoulis2922]

​@@clarkl7027you mean West Taiwan?

[@kostakatsoulis2922]

@@clarkl7027 yeah, its a joke

[@Cantbutlovestosing]

@@clarkl7027is that why we have our own president and most people aren’t brainwashed?

[@PlaYer-sn5or]

1) In 1894, Japan invaded China and Korea, the Qing govt was defeated and signed the [Treaty of Shimonoseki] to cede Taiwan Island to Japan. 2) During the WW2, at the Cairo Conference held in 1943, China asked the transfer of Taiwan's sovereignty back to China after the war. This content was included in the [Cairo Declaration] and later reiterated in the [Potsdam Proclamation] that it should be implemented. 3) In 14 Aug & 2 Sept 1945, the Emperor and govt of Japan issued the [End War Edict] and [Japanese Instrument of Surrender], Japan surrendered and accepted the [Potsdam Proclamation]. The Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to KMT General CKS. Taiwan re-entered the territory of the Republic of China (ROC). 4) Soon after that China civil war broke out in between KMT and CCP, the KMT was defeated and fled to Taiwan. However, due to US intervention, the CCP without strong navy at that time has no ability to unify Taiwan. The CCP then established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The civil war continues..... 5) In 1971, UN Resolution No. 2758 ruled that the PRC had obtained the representation rights and all legal rights originally owned by the ROC in the UN. That means the PRC is China’s only legal govt under international law. Today the PRC also become China’s only legal govt recognized by 181 countries around the world, including the USA. "The USA recognizes the Government of the PRC as the sole legal Government of China." "The USA acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China." Joint Cummunique on the Establishment of Diplomatic relations between the PRC and the USA in 1979. Please refer to President Jimmy Carter's Speech on Relations with China. 6) Therefore, according to international law, international reality, and the wishes of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, Taiwan should return to PRC and the PRC have every rights to protect it's sovereign integrity.

[@user-dc5rw9tq4c]

@@kostakatsoulis2922 yes it’s truth. They’re part of Taiwan also they’re the biggest island in Taiwan 😂

[@GawneForever]

As someone who is currently applying to jobs in chemical engineering, I was pleasantly surprised to know that one of the places I'm applying to is TSMC. Had no idea how huge and influential they are until watching this video

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

just in case you don't know about ASML either, they are similar to TSMC as being an unknown superpower as they are the company that makes the machines that make chips and wafers

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

Samsung Foundry 🇰🇷, Texas instruments 🇺🇲, TSMC 🇹🇼, ASML 🇳🇱, and probably one or two Japanese companies somewhere in there as well are very important for the world's tech

[@swaggery]

Please watch Asianometry to enlighten your knowledge.

[@lawrencefrost9063]

You...are surprised about that? I don't understand. How could you not know?

[@GawneForever]

@@lawrencefrost9063 ignorant college student (if you were referring to me not knowing about TSMC), but i may have worded my comment a bit weirdly. What I was trying to say is I was pleasantly surprised to know that one of the places I'm applying to for jobs (TSMC) is actually a pretty cool company.

[@andrewmorgan693]

My grandfather installed the very first semiconductor ovens in Taiwan. I genuinely wonder if he had any idea of the effect on geopolitics would be.

[@kevinw3601]

I mean its not arguably, China does have the second best military in the world. But it's not true about then having more "warships" unless maybe you are only counting nonsubmeserables. If you ignore submarines then maybe they do. But quality over quantity, especially in military. Take for example the 300 Spartans defeating armies. Viking on countless occasions drove entire armies back with whole digits fewer in numbers by sheer fear. Having more boats doesn't really matter when their military tech is vastly inferior.

[@Karlach_]

The history recap ends at 14:47 if anyone wants to skip that.

[@kelpygerber]

appreciate it

[@matthewjohnson1891]

Thank yoh

[@ItsJoKeZ]

thank you so much so tired of it 😭

[@rcbrascan]

History recap ends at 14:47 and fantasy scenarios begins

[@Karlach_]

@@rcbrascan Seemed like reasonable scenarios to me.

[@firstnamelastname5474]

I got so addicted with this channel, saw a notification and went to watch immediately

[@Thect]

A small correction, we do have oil in Taiwan I think, and it’s still in production. It’s very little and I don’t think most of Taiwanese people know about it, but it’s there

[@justins2599]

Thanks!

[@ZXaber78]

I mean, the global chip shortage also played a huge role in the US wanting to expand local manufacturing. And TSMC keeping their us manufacturing a generation behind isn’t that big a deal, since the actual volume demand on process nodes tends to be on last generation ones anyway. The cutting edge stuff is just what tends to end up in the news.

[@dukeon]

Correct. And the knowledge wouldn’t suddenly disappear; those US fabs could be upgraded in a heartbeat to produce cutting edge chips.

[@mementomori29231]

Good perspective, thanks

[@Khanhblack07]

Hey you 💋💋

[@tired2sleep]

Yep the capability to produce cutting edge chips also has to do with ASML’s EUV lithography machines which allow fabs to manufacture chips at 3 nanometer scale. Intel is also slated to receive these machines in Arizona right next door to TSMC.

[@effexon]

IBM can do those 10 2nm chips if needed. it is just making those in huge volumes that TSMC does better than anyone else.

[@andyyang5234]

Taiwan's nuclear plants have been storing spent fuel (highly radioactive) in "temporary" storage pools within the nuclear plants themselves. As the storage pools are now completely filled up and the government still can't decide on a permanent solution, the plants are practically forced to retire. With that said, they're 70s technology and probably not a good idea to keep operating anyways.

[@BlahVideosBlahBlah]

Taiwan should load these materials into some ICBMs to have a weapon that can make MAD a reality. If Beijing wants to militarily annex Taiwan they'll have to be willing to lose Beijing itself, Shanghai, and another 30 million population worth of citie

[@ASNS117Zero]

@@BlahVideosBlahBlah That's not really at all how nuclear weapons work. For starters, Taiwan would need ICBMs, which is no small thing to produce and maintain. Second, you don't just stick spent nuclear material onto a rocket to make nuclear weapons, they need (among other things) precise materials that are purpose made using a specific type of reactor - which the Taiwanese plants may not even be. And while there are types of reactors that can recycle spent fuel rods toward making enriched material, I'm pretty sure Taiwan doesn't operate *those* types of reactors, as they're widely banned due to nuclear non-proliferation treaties. Even if they did, getting that reaction going is something that takes time and expertise, and would almost assuredly be noticed right away. It'd be a more likely reality for Taiwan to just borrow an American nuclear weapon for deterrence than to make their own, quite frankly. And that's assuming the people living there would be willing to entertain the idea. Not sure what the opinion of the Taiwanese is on nuclear weapons.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

​@@kullzaf6266Yeah that wasn't the United States that was one single person that was power hungry... think before you comment

[@ANO-.-NYM]

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle You forget how bloodthirsty and jingoistic America was at the time. They practically let Bush invade Iraq. Also remember 'warrantless wiretapping'? I'd never imagine they'd let that pass- but it did. Democracy doesn't work if citizens don't participate, and only blaming the President- who people voted for- is just passing the buck. I admit there were Anti-War rallies, and the people who participated in those have my gratitude.

[@benedictjohannes]

Yeah spent nuclear materials won't be nuclear bombs. But exploding it will scatter radioactive materials anyway rendering target irradiated and unsuitable to live in.

[@m15t3r_n8]

Look at those Navies by Tonnage: China has 824,000 tons Total for its Navy America has 3.2 Million, and doesnt cound anything smaller than a destroyer

[@BibleNutter]

These videos are amazing! How do you make them?

[@LucasHsiang]

got fund from you know who, it's a team work, not a single man job

[@Hencid]

this was so so soo good, you where explainign everything with a fast pace but even for me that i am not english everything was easily understandable. history is just soo fascinating

[@Megalodab8793]

This guy knows more about earth than 95% of us government officials

[@timothyandrewnielsen]

Hes just another propaganda mouthpiece and hes not even aware of it.

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

@@timothyandrewnielsensure thing pal

[@mrmike9803]

The sponsorship ad read is hilarious

[@GeorgeSchumpf]

One thing none of the commentators ever bring up is the dual use design of china's private sector shipping and fishing fleets. Many of these ships are designed so that they can be retrofitted quickly in 2 support for fighting ships

[@m00n_g0d]

I have to say. That was an absolute GOD TIER ad-read transition. Bravo

[@sunstryder]

Best video on Taiwan I’ve seen. Amazing research and great overview of all the factors at play

[@joshuaableiter4545]

Naval anti-missile systems could be crucial in any fight near Taiwan because of the amount of missiles China could launch from the mainland.

[@cc_tw]

Great coverage of the history! It's really hard to cover such a complicated relationship, and you managed to do it accurately and succinctly!

[@zackhruska]

Random fun fact: If you dig a hole in Taiwan all the way down to the other side of the earth, you’ll end up in Paraguay.

[@carolynshoaf4045]

I have lived and worked in Vietnam for many years. There have been many news articles about US companies establishing semiconductor factories here. It would be a very difficult and expensive undertaking but it could be done. It's curious that it wasn't mentioned in this video.

[@JayDantara]

very good video but it would be great if you would factor in another major co-dependency element of Taiwan and China or for that matter any country / company wanting to become a chip based superpower... the fact that most of the rare earth elements needed for producing these chips are available in china and they do control it to a large extent.

[@no_more_spamplease5121]

Aren't they in Mongolia, though?

[@pfc_church]

Correction: You count individual boats for largest navy. USA is still largest by tonnage. So even if we count the boats that are not really navy USA still has more boat in the water.

[@jntiger1981]

China’s ship building capacity is of what 20 times of U.S. it’s only a matter of time for China to catch up in both quantity and tonnage

[@pfc_church]

@jntiger1981 one of the 2 two new aircraft carriers they just built got a huge crack in the runway after a month in the ocean. Even if...and its a big if...they put investment into putting that tonnage into the water quality of the ships would still leave the US with a far larger fighting navy. Remember boat that you can throw soldiers on does not = a warship.

[@J_X999]

​@@pfc_churchThere wasn't a crack, you are just making that up. Whenever people bring up tonnage, people counter it with the fact that China fucks the US in shipbuilding capacity. Then you try to play the "made in China" card and it doesn't work. Repeat.

[@ExHyperion]

@@jntiger1981putting metal in the ocean does not equate anywhere close to a cutting edge warfare navy. It’s like saying that china being able to build 20 times the number of airplanes as the US means that they have the best Air Force. Building 20 passenger jets doesn’t give you the ability to shoot down one f-35. Building 20 patrol boats doesn’t give you the ability to kill an Arleigh Burke

[@jntiger1981]

@@ExHyperion You can look up the latest 12,000 tonne type 055 destroyer China built. The first batch of 8 ships was completed in a matter of 4 years, it has 112 VLS launchers with dual band phases array radar which no current U.S. destroy can compete. The 2nd batch of 8 ships are being built as we speak

[@hendrike3092]

Thanks very much for this illuminating video. One additional detail, if I may: from my understanding manufacturing chips is only possible because of a very special machine built in the Netherlands which in return depends on very very special mirrors produced in Germany. Without these machines manufacturing advanced chips would not be possible. I feel there are so many dependencies that the consequences of an attack cannot be calculated. It will come down to what Chinese leadership will command - for whatever reason. May God help us all.

[@arturugowski7341]

@hendrike3092 @RealLifeLofe yes the video part about the early development of semiconductor technology and production of equipment has a lot of mistakes. Like you said the only real manfucaturer of machines is Netherlands and the only real manufacture or mirrors is German Zeiss but the chain is much longer.

[@user-id4zf8en8y]

taiwan is not a country ,is not a state ,it is just a district.

[@Ksix1]

@23:16 who else noticed that the robot left that lady hanging. 😂

[@patrickazzarella6729]

A note about the size of the Chinese navy. Look at the tonnage not the number of ships, they're mostly a coastal defense fleet not a blue water navy like the USA

[@l0lzor123]

dont need a blue water navy to invade taiwan.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

What is hilarious is if you factor your coast guard ships into the navy we drastically outnumber China.

[@ratsock]

In the context of Taiwan, a coastal defence fleet is all that’s needed

[@darthvadeth6290]

Yes exactly, because China, unlike imperialist expansionist USA, is mostly concerned with defending their own coast ("coastal defense fleet") 👍

[@croftmanor2k23]

@@darthvadeth6290 China is an imperialistic nation.

[@tixeright9120]

"Russian components, American components, they are all made in TAIWAN!" The cosmonaut in the movie Armageddon. That scene was so true (at least at the time) it got stuck in my head forever.

[@Mario123007]

And also buzz lightyear is made in Taiwan as we saw in toy story lol.

[@Wild-Eye]

Lol I was looking for this comment 😂✌🏻

[@18890426]

😬

[@YogiMcCaw]

One of the best summaries of the Taiwan situation that I have seen. When I talk to other Americans, most of them don't seem to know anything about TSMC or why it's an important aspect of Taiwanese geopolitics. They talk about about the philosophical points or whether Taiwan should be communist or democratic, or point out the thousands of years of shared history. These are factors for sure, but to be completely blind to the economic and military aspects of the Taiwanese dilemma I find very depressing. Sadly, most Americans are what's known as "'low-information voters". Americans don't stay informed, and they fall for demagoguery way too easily. Therefore, too many Americans don't understand how important Taiwan is to the free world, or why we should defend them from a potential Chinese invasion. Maybe they'll only figure it out when their iPhones and smart TVs stop working...what if you can't watch FOX news because America can't get the chips it needs to power the very devices you use to propagandize yourself?

[@mwangikamundia4553]

Kenya was just chilling...

[@wcg66]

Militarily, Taiwan’s geography and defence capabilities make it a very tough target. A land invasion would require a huge effort that China would be foolish to attempt, if they were successful in winning a naval and air war first. China’s invasion would be as disaster out as Russia’s. I think Russian failures, and isolation on the world stage, have been a sobering realization for China.

[@laurenz4528]

Well unfortunately I believe that they will use thousands of cruise missiles to hit defense targets.

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

somebody, please, make a plugin for my browser, which can open those invisible messages in the KZbin comment section. I can see that there is 1 comment, but when I click on More, the comment does not show up. KZbin is ghost banning people for writing comments. That's why some server and script should walk through the comment section, and backup those comments.

[@josefnagy1697]

start from the beginning and learn

[@Bamawagoner]

I think China will simply be more prepared. They’re playing to win the numbers game since their population is 3x larger. Because the US military is dispersed, a first strike can put local allied forces on their back heel. If Chinese area denial tech works, it would make reinforcing Taiwan from Hawaii, Guam, or California very difficult. Then, they just have to bomb taiwan into submission.

[@moonasha]

they don't need to invade it by land though. All they need to do is blockade it. Taiwan imports everything.

[@nanObytez-kb5ru]

The problem for the PRC isn't their own dependency on Taiwanese microchips but NATO's dependency on Taiwanese microchips. While Taiwan isn't part of NATO and, in fact, isn't even recognized as an independent country by most of NATO it could still be effectively considered as a NATO member state purely because heavv NATO interference in a Chinese-Taiwanese war would be all but guaranteed. The current Ukraine conflict has more than proven NATO's willingness to interfere in a conflict which only really affects it geo-politically. A war over Taiwan would also affect NATO economically so direct interference, as opposed to just material and financial support, would be very likely.

[@recoil53]

Effectively summed up by Vivek Ramaswamy when he said to protect Taiwan until we (the US) no longer needs them.

[@18890426]

@@recoil53 🤫

[@glowyboi7175]

Ukraine hasn't proven much - NATO did literally nothing. Many countries provided aid including military support but they dragged their heels, and even now they could be supplying weapons that would end it but refuse to.

[@npc2480]

China is not Iraq. A nato or US war with China will mean nuclear winter.

[@zhangguai]

can't tell if you're being sarcastic

[@toastfloats8063]

Everybody acts like America can't make microchips. If we need to we will. We created them after all.

[@lancelowery4027]

This is the most informational and thought provoking channel on any platform. The content simply lays out why Gonvernments act like they do and what the ramifications are globally. This should be required viewing for all people. Then we would all be more informed on what truly makes the world tick and how conflicts start.

[@user-nx1xu3tk1q]

What he fails to mention is, most if China's ships are small and lack tonnage. Most cant sail 1000 miles from shore. I'm not nearly convinced of a showdown..

[@Aegis23]

Might not have gotten to that part of the video, but why would China need long range ships. The war they will be fighting is at home. They will not go so far as to put boots on US soil or other countries. It would really be suicide.

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Too bad Taiwan is like 100 miles then, huh?

[@TabbyEgg312]

RLL always fails to research properly

[@prplt]

in general most of China's army is crap and even worse than Russia's 💩 also Russia at least has had experience in many wars whereas China hasn't been in a war for over 40 years 😂

[@carsonfarmer1074]

​@@TabbyEgg312that's why he's the goat

[@mariavaleriagiacaglia8974]

This is the most comprehensive video on the subject that I have found on the Internet so far. Thanks! May Taiwan and its wonderful people never have to endure any invasion!

[@vlhc4642]

It's certainly a very comprehensively wrong video.

[@letsplaywar]

Market capitalization of TSMC (TSM) Market cap: $448.15 Billion As of November 2023 TSMC has a market cap of $448.15 Billion. This makes TSMC the world's 13th most valuable company

[@ferenclucas2842]

Brilliant video

[@lesterwilliamsjr649]

You know what would make a interesting video the top best countries to be born in when it comes to avoiding global conflicts.

[@castleanthrax1833]

New Zealand.

[@finesupplements9698]

papua new guinea

[@crazydavebrasil]

Brazil is pretty chill

[@riderchallenge4250]

when it comes to a war top powerful countries are actually not the best place to live.

[@biggestouf]

​@@riderchallenge4250I disagree, if you are a smaller nation, you are still subject to waves of global events. For example, when France blockaded the tax haven Monaco, what could Monaco do? Same goes for Panama, Venezuela, and Cuba. Globalization has more or less connectioned all of us together so you are either on a drivers seat or in for the ride.

[@quietstorm6304]

As always, outstanding measured content.

[@will5286]

EXCELLENT OVERVIEW

[@jakekoontz4445]

They might have more ships than us. But how good of quality are there ships really?

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

Germany also plays a part, the dutch can´t make their lithographer without Carl Zeiss, only company in the world making lenses precise enough for high end lithographing and also being in a joint venture with the dutch.