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Wouldn't a poison pill to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry deter mainland China indefinitely?

You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island.

Simple and borderline stupid and illustrative of my own ignorance, no doubt, yet it seems like the ultimate strategy.

You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island.

As Dirty Harry would say, "Go ahead, make my day". Torching the fabs would level the playing fields as China would then have more fabs available than the West would. TSMC is who is supplying most of the West's semiconductors these days. They are more advanced than Intel, etc.

I don't think Taiwan sabotaging itself will slow down China. A weaker TW is a lot more vulnerable to reunification and remember, China can nonviolently destroy the Taiwanese economy with very little effort as it is right now due to how supply chains are structured.

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