Oh, great, now you’ve basically given me a homework assignment to look up what they said.

The former have never stopped losing for the last 200 years, and we are now living in the world where the fondest dreams of Locke and Kant and Rousseau are now being faithfully observed almost everywhere.

Please adjust your employee and management structures to reflect this important facet of life.

We need chips, we need space, we need to eat your brains. I don’t care if we survive and get to space, which are the same thing long run.

And I’m completely on the level.

I just don’t want our US sailors, airmen, marines, and soldiers dying for Taiwan, sir, especially if the Taiwanese are taking this passive resistance tack.

Cuz, like, Army sucks and private sector pays…believe me I know. I’m American and a Veteran. Just in case you think I’m Chinese or something, lol.

We should welcome your people and their skills, we’ll assimilate them into our capitalist collective and your distinctiveness will add to our collective Federation. Yes… on the level. We’ve always had success at this path, we’re not doing the war thingie so well these days.

Not that war in Taiwan is likely to take island, people or factories intact. Just come on over to say…Arizona ! Or even Syracuse NY.

I must offer a corrective to your statement about Lysenko above. I didn’t say Lysenko, who was claiming the impossible. IC nm chips are eminently possible. This would be closer to Beria getting the Atomic Bomb done, admittedly with our ah ‘indirect’ assistance via spies. It’s one thing to demand the impossible on a secondary or tertiary matter like food. It’s another to duplicate the already done.

And by the way, America invented all this technology, some forget. Admittedly Taiwan has at present perfected it’s production and turned it’s entire education system into something we can only now admire. Bring the teachers too.

Really, we have plenty of room for 24 million highly skilled people.

The war ain’t worth it, when we can have the prize — the Taiwanese human capital – and China can have the island. We get the chips, China gets its pride.

This is win-win!

Skills are one problem, key capital is another problem, the laws of physics are a third problem. If I recall correctly, Lysenko had a lot of “cooperation” for his project of growing grain in Siberia. The laws of physics did not give a damn about his “cooperative and motivated” slaves. If you ever try to produce a profitable batch of semiconductors, you might discover that the laws of physics are more complicated than you think. But even if the CCP knows the physics, they will have trouble getting the key machine tools from European toolmakers.