There wont be an invasion, there was going to be one but the ukraine thing was like a bucket full of ice on beijing.
Right now a lot of people in the CCP are doubting they even have the capacity to pull it off because they don't trust their own weapons anymore. Some room temp IQ takes in this thread assume their gear is knockoffs from ours. Far from it, most chinese miltech is russian miltech, almost all of their naval aviation are flankers, most of their planes are derived from soviet-russian designs, most of their tanks are an adaptation of russian designs.
The complete shitshow of said equipment in ukraine has made the chinese very wary, the way they sperged out about russian propaganda about china buying the T-14 shows how fucking angry they are at the russians selling them shit weapons.
Now they are even doubting their own domestic developments like the chengu J-20 because while it has some of our stolen tech its still mostly build from what they learned from the flanker and some say its actually a stealth-ized version of the cancelled MiG-144, and really it shares a lot of similarities.
Basically no chinese weapons have been used in any major conflict, the only other country using a sizable amount of chinese aircraft is pakistan and they been using F-16s against india, not the chinese fighters which btw are a cheap for-export-only model and not the J-20 which much like the F-22 its banned from export.
Finally the chinese plain can't afford the social and economic pressure of a long protracted war and blockades like in mao's era. Their population is no longer a bunch of illiterate peasants and many are rebelling against the CCPs bullshit, see the "lying flat" movement which is sort of a MGTOW but for both genders where they stop working their asses off and go for bare minimum and minimalism instead of joining the rat race. Then there are the men who are "forced-cels" because there simple arent enough women around which is causing huge amounts of anger under the surface. Add to that all the companies that went to shit due to wall st-tier retarded investing schemes taking millions of the chinese people's money with them.
It'll happen eventually. Those chip fab capabilities are important.
There's already a plan to airlift all key assets like those ASML machines the moment an invasion starts, followed by all key taiwanese personnel deemed O-1 visa qualified. Whatever can't be shipped away from the island will be destroyed.
Of course it will take years to get similar operations going in the States, our foundries and the "new" ones being built aren't as advanced and can't do the same nodes than taiwan's does meaning that for a while we're gonna be running short of advanced chips, tho milspec ones will still be made because they dont need those absurd 3-5nm scales.
