Lessons for China to learn from Ukraine conflict for Taiwan scenario
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So far I only heard of one major Russian cyberattack on this war. The Viasat hack.
If Russia wanted to take down Ukraine's power grid, they control the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant at 5700 MW power.
They can just shut it down any time they want.
They also control the Zaporizhzhia thermal power station. That is a fossil power plant complex with 3650 MW capacity.
If Russia wanted to take down Ukraine's power grid, they control the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant at 5700 MW power.
They can just shut it down any time they want.
They also control the Zaporizhzhia thermal power station. That is a fossil power plant complex with 3650 MW capacity.
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Trash article.
1. Believes conscription is in use in China reflecting a severe ignorance of what 服兵役 and 义务兵 actually means in practicality.
2. Believes that PLA was "army centric" because of institutional bias and not because of actual defense needs.
3. Doesn't understand the economics behind the difference between China and Russia.
4. Completely ignores the naval aspect
5. Asserts corruption is a problem for Russia but somehow not for Ukraine which has equal or higher corruption then attributes the same corruption to China, with the evidence that many corrupt officials are punished. I believe very few corrupt officials are punished in Ukraine or Russia, by the author's logic....
Truly an awful article.
Inflection point*
Taiwan doesn’t have much special tech. TSMC process lead is simply because they occupied a space that Intel wasn’t interested in which turned out to be a mistake (low power consumption CPU).
Semiconductors is just a bogeyman for politicians to use to promote “Taiwan Freedom” today. A few years ago it was “Island building”, and before that it was “1000’s of ballistic missiles”, and before that “unstoppable human wave”. In the end, from the big picture, Taiwan is a foil. Something to make China uncomfortable.
The nominal economic cost of gaining an extra 7 to 20nm of chip real estate is not worth a war for either side. If Taiwanese government thinks that is true they are stupid beyond words. Force Apple to use Intel and lose an hour of iPhone battery life or risk a Nimitz class CVN sunk by an AShBM, the answer is obvious
I would say unlikely but not an impossibility, although at the end of the day, even if they did do something like that, chances are still pretty big that we won't see that much/big of an improvement due to various factors and in general Taiwan =/= Ukraine and China =/= Russia.
taking those islands is pointless, they do not pose a threat, and taking them does not give the PLA any advantage.
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