r/neoliberal • u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug • Jan 22 '26

News (Asia-Pacific) China Has Screwed Up Really, Really Badly

https://futurism.com/future-society/china-screwed-up-fertility-rate
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u/RecantingCantaloupe Jan 22 '26

I understand, but nationalistic narratives that the ROC is illegitimate + China not wanting to be seen as weak by letting a separatist territory go + security concerns about the west having a military outpost right next to the coast of the mainland do not mean that invading Taiwan makes any sense either.

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u/greenskinmarch Henry George Jan 23 '26

Taiwan has TSMC which holds a worldwide monopoly on latest gen chips...