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by mschuster91 1909 days ago
> Achieving high-tech autarky is a first step towards a war with china becoming viable.

Definitely, but it's also a sensible precaution against natural disaster (earthquakes, tsunamis), madman-going-mad (especially Kim Jong Un, whose missiles have more than enough capability to reach Taiwan) and other (like the Suez Canal fuck-up) risk.

It simply is too much risk when too many companies depend on one single other company's (TSMC) products... Apple, AMD/ATI, almost all automobile supply chains...

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And not forget, there are other dependencies (cheap stuff vs exports to the US) beyond just semiconductors.