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Most bridges here do, and often when one needs to be demolished and rebuilt, the military blows it up just for practice.
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I have heard the same thing about semiconductor factories in Taiwan. Don't know if it's true or urban legend.
They’re 100% going scorched earth if China manages to make landfall
They’ll literally put the world to a post-apocalyptic state, we can’t get new chips for any electronics in quantity for a good half decade or more.
I wouldn't say post-apocalyptic. Yes, we won't have access to performant new chips anymore, but most critical infrastructure doesn't need performant new chips. It would be a rough period, for sure, but not apocalyptic
And if worst came to worst, the military/government could requisition consumer equipment, or less critical business equipment
Wouldn't surprise me - their chip foundries are the most robust defense they have. If they were gone, Taiwan would be "just another Island that will cause you loads of headache internationally and because of a nearly guaranteed resistance - and you expended a lot of resources for it on top"