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Everyone is aware that this would be scorched earth, right? If the fabs somehow survive the initial wave of strategic bombing both the US and Taiwan have an interest in preventing them from falling into enemy hands. In addition, the US will then place China under a trade embargo. And that's assuming that the US doesn't actively engage PRC forces.

To say this would make the world worse off is a drastic understatement.




Exactly. And the TSMC chair said it best:

TSMC would be rendered "not operable," TSMC Chair Mark Liu said.




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