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"Gas Armageddon": Energy/electricity prices in EU/UK (and how to deal with them)

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Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: nctnico on September 07, 2022, 11:11:04 am ---The Chinese electronics industry needs TSMC to continue production...

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Yeah, and currently they can buy from TSMC like anyone else, and TSMC delivers just fine AFAIK. It's normal risk analysis: by taking over it violently, you could gain maybe some cost savings, maybe some technology improvements or better priorization when it is yours, but you risk losing it all for years or even longer.

My personal guesstimate is Chinese are not stupid to take that risk. China is doing pretty well IMHO, and their resources are better spent on creating competition on the mainland.

nctnico:
The biggest question is whether China is 'thinking' rationally about invading Taiwan or not. They'd be shooting a hole the size of the moon in their feet but might still do it out of nationalistic sentiment (in order to draw the attention away from problems brewing inside China).

JPortici:

--- Quote from: IconicPCB on September 06, 2022, 10:28:37 pm ---A lesson for EU politicians and their electorates:

whom you should pray to ( gas supplier ) , you should not anger

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No, the lesson is yet again "never put most/all your eggs in the same basket".

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: nctnico on September 07, 2022, 07:51:23 pm ---The biggest question is whether China is 'thinking' rationally about invading Taiwan or not. They'd be shooting a hole the size of the moon in their feet but might still do it out of nationalistic sentiment (in order to draw the attention away from problems brewing inside China).

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One bigger question yet is whether you (or anyone here really) fully knows the ins and outs of China's politics in general and what's related to Taiwan in particular. The most probable answer is: absolutely not.

It's really concerning IMHO that so many people seem to take non-western countries as just completely clueless and irrational (while they are currently rising at a pace we never have). It's definitively as though we are completely unable to think outside of our small western box.

That is *our* problem and that's exactly what those countries are currently telling us. That includes all BRICS really. India seems "softer" but don't underestimate them either. Are we sure we are worth more, are morally better and have the capacity of fighting against China, Russia and India (and probably a lot of their allies)? Just wondering.

tautech:

--- Quote from: JPortici on September 07, 2022, 08:00:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: IconicPCB on September 06, 2022, 10:28:37 pm ---A lesson for EU politicians and their electorates:

whom you should pray to ( gas supplier ) , you should not anger

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No, the lesson is yet again "never put most/all your eggs in the same basket".

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And don't ignore the sabre rattling and testing the boundaries of what EU, NATO and others would accept (lie down and roll over) of these last few years.
Now you have to enjoy the most dangerous administration in the last 100 years as your neighbor ......well done Europe !  :clap:

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