From the source article:
"Republican hawks appear to have come to the same conclusion. The United States will enact a scorched-earth policy in Taiwan, destroying its semiconductor industry, if the PRC seizes the island, former Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien told a conference at the Richard Nixon Foundation on November 10, reports army-technology.com."
"You've got to destroy the semiconductor plants, to save them" ???
What good would this do?
We would lose the production from those plants.
And China would STILL "get Taiwan".
If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact – which I don’t think we would ever allow – they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil,” O’Brien said.
Then it's time to gather up those plants, lock, stock and barrel, and move them OUT OF Taiwan. Someplace else where they won't be easy for the Chinese to get to.
America isn't going to beat China in their own waters.
Sooner or later, Taiwan is gonna have to make "the best deal they can get" from the Chinese.
And they should take the initiative on this.
Otherwise, it's gonna be "an offa they can't refuse"...
