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High-Tech Firms Worry About Taiwan-China Tensions

Posted by timothy on from the with-good-reason dept.

Andy Tai writes "This San Jose Mercury News story shows high tech companies in the Silicon Valley worry about a possible war between mainland China and Taiwan. Both play important roles in the computer industry and the U.S. depends on both to finance the federal budget deficits. Many businessmen hope that economic considerations will prevent both sides from marching down a self-destructive path."

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  1. Who here remembers... by j0keralpha · · Score: 4, Informative

    the memory shortages several years back when the taiwanese warehouses and manufacturers we blown away by a typhoon?

  2. non-asian memory manufacturer by Hanzie · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think Micron qualifies.

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  3. A little history... by ChangeOnInstall · · Score: 3, Informative

    For anyone who is as utterly clueless as I was about what's going on between China and Taiwan, take a look at this:

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/china/china-ta iwan.html

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  4. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 4, Informative

    Aside from the fact that China doesn't give a fuck about economic concerns, there isn't much chance of a war happening.

    As unlikely as more people looking to China than the U.S. for hopes for a better future.

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  5. IT industry will benefit from the re-united China by deconvolution · · Score: 3, Informative

    Taiwant governors are against the large-scale investment plan of taiwan major IT manufactors to mainland china for poiltical reasons.

    Furthermore they also disencourge people from mainland china visiting and treat all of them as spies. It means you must back to hotel before 7pm and report to your guide everyday! This prevents the normal technical communcation between two areas.

    Thirdly there are not direct tranportation method between mainland china to taiwan (must via a third place.) The import tax is almost free for transport industry goods from taiwan to mainland china but is very high for inverse.

    All of these aspects lead to the result of many additional, unreasonable costs are attached into the final IT products. One thing is surly confirm that many IT products will become much cheaper(such as motherboard, ram and monitor) if two areas are united, at least in terms of market.

    In addition, in fact, for chinese people, we dont call taiwan and china as two countries(For long time western medias have been misleading this key point where most Chinese people, even many people in taiwan, are strongly against). Instead, we use taiwan district of China and mainland China, or Republic of China and People's Republic of China, agreed with both governments.