* Posts by Obelus

4 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Apr 2023

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them

Obelus

Re: In order to stop another country from destroying you ....

And the end of Washington and London in similar radiation clouds. Putin has just been admonished for threatening to use nuclear weapons but here we are doing exactly the same."The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible," the G20 leaders said

Obelus

Re: Isn't that their plan?

Biden's no supporter of the ICC but do his supportive comments after the recent indictment of Putin by the ICC make him a disgrace or a communist?

Obelus

Re: Does it matter?

I would say that would be extremely unlikely. From China's perspective, post a successful PLA invasion of Taiwan, a nuclear attack on the island with tens of thousands of stationed PLA forces (and millions of remaining

civilians) would be seen as a massive escalation of attack on China proper. China would not be without retaliatory options.

China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived

Obelus

Re: No morals then

Money talks. Just ask BAE Systems how much profit in the billions they made last year in Saudi Arabia where 81 people were executed in a single day. Cheap convenient products also talk. Will people stop buying Chinese goods? Will you?