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"their government is that stupid enough"
I honestly can't think of any historical examples of China making self-destructive decisions like this out of ego. Chinese perspective is as socialist as it gets. I also don't understand at all your point of them pushing even MORE disaster on themselves during a time when their economy is in danger. That really makes sense to you?
There's several examples in Chinese history of their self-destructive ego but if you want a great example, look at what caused the Opium Wars. Chinese have always thought of themselves as the center of the world and even the word China in Mandarin means "middle kingdom", everyone outside of China is considered barbarians by them. When Europeans came to China to trade, Chinese Emperor refused to allow them to trade because they were outsider barbarians. Chinese emperor would only allow British to buy goods but not sell the Chinese any goods. British East Indies Company started giving opium to Chinese they bought from and get them addicted to opium. Soon a sizeable portion of China was addicted to opium and Chinese Emperor was forced to open up trade with Europe. Since Chinese population was also weak from addiction they were easily conquered by Europeans and this is how you ended up with French controlling Vietnam, British getting Hong Kong, and so on.
If the CCP is on the brink of falling apart, they will push war with Taiwan and world to prolong their collapse as well as a last resort. If they destroy Taiwan, they can gamble on creating computer chips before US and world, and then proceed to dominate everyone through their tech. They could also gamble that the US will fold rather than fight them in any meaningful way because who manufactures everything for US? China.
I am very familiar with ancient Chinese history, and China refusing trade is not at all an example of China exercising self-destruction for the sake of ego, as they were not dependent on the prospective trade whatsoever. This is merely an example of their historic pride and caution of foreign influence, they didn't need to buy from Britain at the time, but China has many times capitulated on this point when their survival actually depended on it.
They don't need to destroy Taiwan to control their microcontroller tech, China has adopted colonialism.
I'm sorry. but this notion doesn't seem well thought out or based in any history or observed reality at all.
I'm not talking microcontroller size, I'm talking transistor size, the basis of every computer chip. They are not be able to outcompete Taiwan in transistor size. Taiwan still makes by far the best quality and smallest transistors in the world and it would take the world about 10 years to catch up to Taiwan, if Taiwan's factories magically blew up. China is nowhere on the same level as Taiwan which is why they still buy almost all of their silicon chips from TSMC (Taiwan Silicon Manufacturing Company). If they blew up Taiwan, you'd have a crash in the computer industry then a race to build back to what Taiwan has, it would be a decent gamble by China since they have more people overall and more expertise in electronics than the US currently which focuses on software.
I don't understand the point of this deflection in your argument. You talking about transistors specifically and not microcontrollers literally does not do anything at all to back the notion that China would cripple themselves for no good reason by literally bombing and destroying Taiwan instead of continuing to assert colonial-type control over them. They already claim their land now, they virtually own Taiwan already, and you think they'll bomb industries that they consider to be their own property? I get it, you are living in a fantasy land where China will destroy themselves out of ego because you think they're stupid. Sorry, I'm not wasting my time anymore on this topic because you aren't addressing the reasoning behind my counter-argument at all.