Sounds reasonable to me, though, that's also assuming a 100% committal to such a thing, which I'm pretty sure there isn't.

schmidtbag:

Sounds reasonable to me, though, that's also assuming a 100% committal to such a thing, which I'm pretty sure there isn't.

And that it all works as intended. Because such a complicated thing as high tech is so multi layered, that at one point things will change and one of the cogs in the machine involuntarily stops turning. It's just a guess of which one, and one might be just commitment.

The downside if it happens is that leaders will be more willing to go to war to deal with the competition

schmidtbag:

Sounds reasonable to me, though, that's also assuming a 100% committal to such a thing, which I'm pretty sure there isn't.

It's something that should be a high priority for the US or other countries interested in future development. Because I have little doubt that eventually China will try and force it's hand when it comes to Taiwan. They did with Hong Kong, and broke plenty of promises whilst doing so, even though the British agreed to hand it back.

Maddness:

It's something that should be a high priority for the US or other countries interested in future development. Because I have little doubt that eventually China will try and force it's hand when it comes to Taiwan. They did with Hong Kong, and broke plenty of promises whilst doing so, even though the British agreed to hand it back.

It would have been advantageous for China to have already forced its hand if doing so wasn't going to be met with worse consequences. They've been dipping their feet into what might happen for a while. The thing is, so long as the western world has a heavy dependency on Taiwan, China will lose far more than they'd gain if they attempt to reclaim it, which is why they continue to hold off. The difference with Hong Kong is it's a lot harder for its citizens to defend, and its assets weren't as critical to foreigners as Taiwan. The sad reality is: countries only defend other countries when they have something to gain in the end. That's why we never hear about half of the wars going on today throughout Africa, or the immense human rights issues of countries like Eritrea, Yemen, DRC, Turkmenistan, etc.

If there is a will, there is the way.. Like in wars, you can speed up things and progress, fi you invest a lot of money and effort. Its complicated to build and new factory teach people skills.. but you can copy / paste existing factory 1 to 1 (already all was researched) and bring third of employees from it to USA through some exception relocation package.

you need a lot of ressources to make chips water electricity more than a small european town for a single factory in states that already have water, electricity problems it's never happening

Bankers will never let America become independent with anything. Too much slave labor around the world to pad profit margins.

Pretty sure the shorter-term goal is to completely domesticate the production of chips vital to national security - i.e. "chips that don't exist"/cost a goddamned fortune already. Everything after that is gravy.