On: Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

[dathinab]

It's not a good test drive.

The situation around Taiwan is fundamentally different and can't be compared.

The US or even EU just care soso about Ukraine. The lost of trust of partners, lost face and potential follow up actions and consequences are things they care about more then the Ukraine itself. Hence why they didn't get too much involved in recent years.

But at least the US cares _a lot_ about Taiwan and the EU should too.

[coolspot → dathinab]

That is why US helps TSMC to move factories to the US.

[dathinab → coolspot]

The new US factories of TSMC are more about availability during a war then about not defending Taiwan.

TSMC is a Taiwaneese company down to the core, they likely won't be around anymore if Taiwan is gone.

Plus building semiconductor factories takes a long time, weather it's TSMC or Samsung. So China would need to wait for another ~8 Years.