…no?
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To take Taiwan China will need to have soldiers here. Unless you have boots on the ground you won’t win a war. The mighty Russian military was supposed to defeat Ukraine in 3 days. How’s that working out? China has the issue that it would need an invasion fleet larger than that used for the D Day landings. Satellite imagery will show any buildup up.
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Sure that would depend on the time of year and the ability of this island of engineers to construct temporary bridges that reinforcements could cross. Maybe you haven’t seen how fast landslides and collapsed bridges get crossed up in the mountains in much rougher terrain?
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Seems Japan is making inroads in its defense.:
https://defence-blog.com/japans-railgun-prototype-emerges-online/
Ok, so the question is, Taiwan has locally built submarines and drones and has increased arms sales but could we come up with some groundbreaking, unique weapon that gives us an edge like this one? Japan is surrounded by Russia, North Korea and China, surely a military alliance would benefit…if it wasn’t that current economic war is also forcing Japan to cozy up to China, since “US ally” also got struck with tariffs.
Of course Taiwan could. See this book.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549387/island-tinkerers/
Here’s the author talking about her work.
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Built with a lot of help
Here they are followers, and as with most tech they aren’t good at design
Japan has long been one of the great engineering nations of the world. Taiwan can’t figure out traffic lights. Taiwan could manufacture a design to spec at low cost, though
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He said no food or medicine but never denied weapons 
I honestly this having secret stashed of weaponry in every 711 might be something to seriously consider.
Ever heard of Mediatek? Plenty of design going on in Taiwan’s bicycle industry. Taiwanese manufacturers design products for customer all the time. The No. 3 Freeway, Snow Mountain Tunnel, and the expressway to Hualien are all impressive examples of civil engineering.
I bet this guy from my supporting article knows more about it than I do
“Taiwan’s drone manufacturing is plagued with the same problems as its high-tech sector. It tends to be strong in making hardware, but it’s very weak in design and system integration, says Su Tzu-yun of Taiwan’s government-backed Institute for National Defense and Security Research”
Big difference between tweaking an invention from hundreds of years ago, and inventing something groundbreaking
Assuming they weren’t made with outside help, what is particularly groundbreaking about them?
Are you the poster who believes the traffic lights here are high tech? That was you, wasn’t it?
I said that Taiwan has had computerized traffic light systems for a long time. They seem to work reasonably well here in central Taipei but I don’t drive very often.
I don’t doubt that is currently the case. Where we might disagree on is how quickly Taiwan can come up to speed especially if it gets help from the U.S. and other leaders in this particular kind of tech.
Humorous, albeit, serious subject matter on what the CCP has been up to recently.
There is a lot of Taiwan outside of central Taipei, I drive it often. Even the counters on the lights don’t work reasonably well.
@Icon was asking a question:
And sure, they could probably copy and maybe even tweak someone else’s “groundbreaking, unique weapon” if someone else came here to help them do it.
But seriously, go for a drive outside of central Taipei…
Nah, he’ll just claim a win and move on as long as he can geidt on and have rallies and “dance” (if you’re generous enough to call his guessing dancing).
Self sufficient supply chain? What, are they gonna build them with bamboo and rocks? Powered with burning garbage and deadfall?
A couple of videos (both long) that explore the topic.
Can you give us the cliff notes version please?
A 10 minute video is one thing, but I’m not going to watch something as long as a movie.
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Just scanned it, TW part in the first video I think starts around 30min in. Basically Taiwan is part of China, it’s America’s fault and they won’t help, etc.
They make some interesting points but it feels one sided, imo.
Also it was too long so I didn’t watch it all.
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