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7/21/2025, 11:38:30 PM
>>64013854
China is like big (very big) Mexico. Which is not great, but not terrible. Look at how China compares to the U.S., South Korea and Japan in terms of "total factor productivity." If you build a factory and hire more workers (labor and capital), output will rise. But if you start producing more output with the same amount of workers and machines, that's an improvement in TFP.
>>64013870
If Taiwan can really boost drone production... think about what you could do to massed Chinese landing forces from those mountains. I mean you can just look down at them. But my instinct tells me that success here would probably come down to the political factor more than anything. If there was some serious political crisis in Taiwan and becomes incapable of governing and functioning and China tries something sneaky. There was a Taiwanese movie depicting the run-up to a PLA invasion with Chinese glowies taking over the internet, and the TVs switch over to CCTV, and creepy pro-PRC incel youth goon squads are driving around on motorbikes:
https://youtu.be/ixcZ70oLnTU
>>64013891
To create the illusion of effectiveness so we keep our distance from China. They look out at the Pacific and see U.S. carrier strike groups, bases, long-range bombers that can fly across the ocean and strike them. They have a sort of "fortress mentality" and they want to muscle us out of their backyard.
China is like big (very big) Mexico. Which is not great, but not terrible. Look at how China compares to the U.S., South Korea and Japan in terms of "total factor productivity." If you build a factory and hire more workers (labor and capital), output will rise. But if you start producing more output with the same amount of workers and machines, that's an improvement in TFP.
>>64013870
If Taiwan can really boost drone production... think about what you could do to massed Chinese landing forces from those mountains. I mean you can just look down at them. But my instinct tells me that success here would probably come down to the political factor more than anything. If there was some serious political crisis in Taiwan and becomes incapable of governing and functioning and China tries something sneaky. There was a Taiwanese movie depicting the run-up to a PLA invasion with Chinese glowies taking over the internet, and the TVs switch over to CCTV, and creepy pro-PRC incel youth goon squads are driving around on motorbikes:
https://youtu.be/ixcZ70oLnTU
>>64013891
To create the illusion of effectiveness so we keep our distance from China. They look out at the Pacific and see U.S. carrier strike groups, bases, long-range bombers that can fly across the ocean and strike them. They have a sort of "fortress mentality" and they want to muscle us out of their backyard.
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