Tesla's independent chip production would derisk potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan

Tesla's independent chip production would derisk potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan | If if he can do this really quickly, then he is in many ways derisking World War II.

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If if he can do this really quickly, then he is in many ways derisking World War II.

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  "caveats": "Conditional on Elon executing quickly; speaker said World War II but meant III",
  "context": "If if Tesla is going beyond hypothetically its existing Samsung collaboration or or any existing hypothetical Intel collaborations and is starting to independently scale its own production which of course will be done in the United States, this is a tremendous geopolitical implication for potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. If if he can do this really quickly, then he is in many ways derisking World War II.",
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