...Canada will not be far behind..... "'B.C. to stay the course as U.S. CDC relaxes COVID guidelines: Health minister'; are you BC corrupted narcissistic idiots that out of touch? It is time to set the good people of BC free, it is time!" https://palexander.substack.com/p/earth-to-british-columbia-bc-earth
SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading in China despite extraordinary, destructive, attempts at brute-force suppression and their best efforts at vaccination. This is in the summer 25-hydroxyvitamin D peak. Transmission will surely rise as as levels fall in the months to come. The next peak is nearly a year away.
This is not a good position from which to actually invade Taiwan, especially since the whole of China cannot do without the semiconductors made there. The Taiwanese semiconductor factories would not produce anything under occupation, since the equipment depends very much on support from companies in Western countries. Foxconn is a Taiwanese company employing 1.2 million mainland Chinese. In a war, countries such as Australia would stop selling iron ore and other minerals to the Chinese, along with equipment and electronic parts their entire economy depends upon. Likewise imported food.
Rational leadership would surely recognise this and so do no more than rattle their sabres regarding Taiwan. However, relying on rational judgment from the leaders of countries is not a good bet - especially from a dictatorship.
Just random. I had a job offer for a position that involved extensive travel to China. I only found that out in the final interview and I turned it down right away. Decent job but no way I was taking the chance of sneezing in China and being welded in a hotel room (hyperbole but still).
My question is: Does Xi consider himself more "infallible" than the Pope?
I'm thinking "yes." (It's the "disease" of dictators.)
...Canada will not be far behind..... "'B.C. to stay the course as U.S. CDC relaxes COVID guidelines: Health minister'; are you BC corrupted narcissistic idiots that out of touch? It is time to set the good people of BC free, it is time!" https://palexander.substack.com/p/earth-to-british-columbia-bc-earth
SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading in China despite extraordinary, destructive, attempts at brute-force suppression and their best efforts at vaccination. This is in the summer 25-hydroxyvitamin D peak. Transmission will surely rise as as levels fall in the months to come. The next peak is nearly a year away.
This is not a good position from which to actually invade Taiwan, especially since the whole of China cannot do without the semiconductors made there. The Taiwanese semiconductor factories would not produce anything under occupation, since the equipment depends very much on support from companies in Western countries. Foxconn is a Taiwanese company employing 1.2 million mainland Chinese. In a war, countries such as Australia would stop selling iron ore and other minerals to the Chinese, along with equipment and electronic parts their entire economy depends upon. Likewise imported food.
Rational leadership would surely recognise this and so do no more than rattle their sabres regarding Taiwan. However, relying on rational judgment from the leaders of countries is not a good bet - especially from a dictatorship.
Just random. I had a job offer for a position that involved extensive travel to China. I only found that out in the final interview and I turned it down right away. Decent job but no way I was taking the chance of sneezing in China and being welded in a hotel room (hyperbole but still).