• Doorbook@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why people in the west care about this territorial conflict.

    It is clearly a strategic conflict for USA and allies to keep China at distance and reduce their ability to move further.

    But for people to keep talking about it like it is a ( good vs evil ) feels like propganda by USA military or something.

    If we imagine a world where china without Nuclear weapons, so Nato can stop them anytime, I dont think the USA media will care about them.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Why shouldn’t we care about the land and people they said they’d take by force if need be? Really?

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      It’s pretty clear that having a strategic partner in that part of the world is a net positive for western counties. Also Taiwan supplies a huge fraction of our computer chips.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        That they managed to utterly dominate the chipmaking market and use that as a leverage to make allies was a real master move. The pandemic and the whole supply chain troubles giving a wake up call that “all eggs in one basket” is bad sure got them worried, tho.

    • min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      Because Taiwan makes most of the computer chips we use, and the US definitely has a vested interest in China not obtaining that knowledge.