The United States Department of Commerce Monday proposed investing as much as $6.6 billion to fund a third Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

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    8 months ago

    Couldn’t Taiwan find a country willing to “harbor” the entire population and move

    Let me stop you right there - how exactly do you propose to move 24 million people?

    It is worthwhile to talk about possible alternatives, and I don’t think you should be getting down votes for it, but this isn’t feasible.

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      8 months ago

      How many people have wars and climate change displaced? 12 million people fled Ukraine in the 2 years since Russia invaded. Around 65 million people fled Europe during the second world war which took 6 years. Did they need some kind of advanced plan to be moved? So, how do we displace 24 milllion people? The same way we always have: with whatever transports we have available.

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        8 months ago

        The other places you mention were not islands. People could walk out if necessary.

        Unless you can propose at least a rough outline of something practical (e.g. what ships might be used, a time estimate for how long it would take to move all of the people, personal belongings and the hardware, and a plan for how to get 24 million people to willingly leave their homes without a fight) I think you should give it up.

        As I said, it’s worthwhile to discuss alternatives, but it’s not worthwhile to continue to discuss ones that are obviously infeasible.