🇹🇼🇮🇷 The Iran war's most dangerous casualty might be your phone...
Taiwan makes 90% of the world's advanced chips.
Those chips need two things from the Strait of Hormuz: helium from Qatar to cool silicon wafers during manufacturing, and LNG to keep the power on.
Taiwan gets roughly 70% of its helium and a third of its electricity fuel from the Gulf.
The island has 11 days of LNG storage.
Helium evaporates from tanks within 45 days regardless.
Qatar's Ras Laffan has been bombed multiple times.
A third of global helium supply vanished overnight.
TSMC alone uses 10% of Taiwan's entire electricity output.
No power, no chips.
No chips, no phones, no cars, no AI servers, no modern economy.
Put simply: Tech giants are spending $650 billion this year on AI infrastructure that depends on a supply chain running through a warzone.
Source: Substack, Futurism, Atlantic Council
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🇨🇳🇹🇼 U.S intelligence says China prefers to take Taiwan without force and has no fixed invasion timeline.
Smart. Because a military invasion would be catastrophic even for China.
Taiwan sits 100 miles off the Chinese coast, fortified, armed, and prepared for exactly this scenario.
China has the numbers.
Taiwan has the terrain, the preparation, and a powerful navy standing behind it.
China wants Taiwan. It just doesn't want to bleed for it.
Source: Reuters