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taiwan is 100% global strategic. taiwan produces 60% of the world's chips, 90% of the most advanced processers. the things you need for an ai war.
https://time.com/6102879/semiconductor-chip-shortage-tsmc/
taiwan was closely allied to south africa for decades, along with israel, they were the three renegade countries aligned with the west. south africa developed the world's most advanced mini nukes, collaborating with israel, germany, italy, the uk, the usa and france, using red mercury. this is an absolute fact. this little-known book tells some of the story:
https://peterhounam.com/books/the-mini-nuke-conspiracy/
taiwanese ships were in the vicinity of the south africans' infamous 1979 nuclear test in the indian ocean, according to the book. this was all covered up by jimmy "i will never lie to you" carter.
taiwan has also invested heavily in electromagnetic warfare, including remote sensing. the south africans were also into this, using it for population mind control, inciting "black on black" violence, and in particular sexual aggression, vast pandemics of rape and violence. i'm certain taiwan's electromagnetic capability would extend to weather and earthquake warfare.
tactical nuclear weapons, some even from shoulder-held launchers, were used by south africa in the angolan war against the cubans, who retaliated with massive soviet-supplied missile barrages (and also mini nukes, according to some accounts in that book).
so we are talking about battle-tested tactical nuclear warfare here.
all in all, don't fuck with taiwan, unless you are really serious about immanentizing that eschatron 9000.