What? Why? As in, why Tim Cook aka Tim Apple? I'm so confused, why are tech oligarchs getting CIA briefings? And this is normal?
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Veiled threats to motivate them to build chip factories in the US maybe?
To play into the theory here (China invading)...
Apple makes phones. Lots of people buy the phones. If apple can't make phones, then they can't sell phones, then people can't buy phones, bad for economy.
If China invaded Taiwan and it wasn't a "peaceful transfer of power", then China could just level the whole country, which would destroy all the fabs and little Susie down the street can't upgrade from the iPhone 18 to the iPhone 19. Again, just playing into the theory.
Americans are consumers. I'm assuming they think(CIA/gov) that as long as iPhones, TVs, and porn is available then Americans won't care about Taiwan getting invaded.
I think it's pressure to try to get him to pull out of deals with Chinese memory manufacturers.
It isn't going to work though. The industry is too fucked right now and apple needs to partner with Chinese memory manufacturers if they want to produce hardware this year.
If China's gonna do it they have a wide open window
China invading Taiwan would unify this world more than any one want, and they definitely don't want the world unified against them, besides they don't need Taiwan anymore, they have cracked uv lithography and will be a serious competitor soon enough, after that nobody will care about Taiwan and they can just take it without the US intervention or at least after the UD catches up as well.
You remind me all those people saying that russia is way too powerful to need ukraine and way too smart to attack it before the war started
Fascists will fascist
The difference is of course China is to powerful and smart to attack.
Not saying they are stronger than America (yet) but they do seem to be the only country that has their shit together, at least mostly. All of their major problems don't look like their problems at all but the problems of the people, which is a problem but won't affect the outcome of global events unless they collapse and they seem to be less likely to collapse than most others at the moment.
Now admittedly this could all be propaganda straight from the CCP but that is kinda a point in their favor, they are the only ones who can control the narrative anymore, it's a sign of dysfunction from every other countrie since they all propagate propaganda proportionally to power.
They can move on Taiwan at any point now and in the future. So can nearly any geopolitical power. This headline is meaningless.
Hint hint CIA will be helping to further destabilize Taiwan/China relations.
This is just the "Davidson Window," which is based on a CIA report that Xi directed the PLA to be ready to take Taiwan by 2027. ADM Davidson took that and used it as a warning to the US military that China is ramping up their capabilities, and other officers, lawmakers, and intelligence folks ran with that until they started saying "China will invade Taiwan in 2027." Evidently, CEOs were briefed for some (probably stupid or corrupt) reason.
Personally, I think too many senior American leaders read into that report and Davidson's warning. Plus, most people who really know anything about China don't think that China will move kinetically against Taiwan around 2027.
Edit: Here's the Wikipedia article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson_window