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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chip fabs. TSMC is leaps and bounds ahead of Chinese production.

Probably a bunch of other tech stuff too, but that's the big one.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that the Taiwanese government would rather burn their own plants to the ground than let China take them.

The 0.01% of Taiwan will be living in Switzerland or Brazil while the rest of the folks are cleaning up the rubble.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rumor is they have contingency plans in place to destroy the important stuff.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Even if they didn't, they'd make sure the rumor was out there.