[megamike]

What China Just Learned From the Iran War: Beijing watched America bomb Iran and drew its own conclusions about red lines, deterrence, and Taiwan. The lessons are not the ones Washington wants China to learn: A blockade of Taiwan would hurt the global economy more than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/china-...

[M95D]

What blocade? The invasion will be over in a day, or a weekend at most. On Monday, business as usual.

[scoofy]

Why do articles like this get written that pretend that governments are dumb?

Iran knew what an oil disruption would do, that’s why they did it.

China knows what a semiconductor blockade would do. That’s why they’ve done a dozen practice runs.