Taiwan's benefit:
Also if CCP invades Taiwan, no 4nm US production is online...so we (US) better make sure Taiwan stays secure if we want TSMC 3 nm and 4 nm products....

I'd worry more about the arsenic, other heavy metals and nucleotides released from geothermal than correctly operated nukes.

You seem to be overlooking the direct land grabs (and some ethic cleansing and genocides) in Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), Mongolia, India in recent times, much less those absorbed long ago. Not to mention the offshore land grabs of other people's EEZ.

You also seem to be overlooking China's successful export of political system to Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and seeding of many, many more countries with Maoists, students, influencers or colonists. China seems to have exported much its system to our tech community, with the US descending in rapid fashion toward a Chinese style Big Brother.

more discovered every day

Oil and gas companies, power companies and consumers used to release sulfur dioxide, sulfates and other particulates for free cooling until somebody made them stop at enormous costs...

Just remember an individual's digital currency can be turned off on government whims (a la Trudeau), privacy routinely invaded even worse as AI evolves, and totally fail in power outages (from hurricanes to EMP).

Another brick in the totalitarian wall.
It's been going on a long time,,,

from 1967 {Simon & Garfunle's "Mrs Robinson"]
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know ... We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files

Hot is a matter of taste.

Maybe doable at 30, she's going on 39 and getting over the hill. .

If she gets an appropriate sentence, like 20 years, she can meet jr at college graduation.

Why do I have this dread feeling of deja vu' and double - triple decimation by China, Russia, No Korea, etc ?

check the satellite data for chinese and no korean vessels...

If the snow crabs ball up like other species, one big slurp and they are gone...

So we paid a fortune to take the aerosols out, 1970-2020, and now they want to be paid even more to put them back.

My take was to consider the transitory nature and the assumptions of observation.

Unidentified Transient Image, Effect, Phenomenon, Observation

Without being too lost in sci fi, one has to wonder if we're looking at some crossed beam effects analogous to laser cooling ("phantoms") and plasma generation("cosmics") scanned across the sky to spoof and spook various parties - pilots, SAM sites, politicians, superstitious population, etc.

availability of power supply options, proximity to customers,..

the [near infinite] power supply they need is in DC, near their customer base of the three letter agencies of the 4th branch

Tech companies probably happy to fry an indefinite number of innocents to remove or relieve responsibility for child porn exploitation (including some sketchy mgmt/owners) and/or have arbitrary anti-consumer powers.