US would destroy Taiwan's semiconductor factories rather than letting them fall into China's hands, a former national security adviser says
Although a lot of the research and development for semiconductors happens in the US, the last 30 years saw manufacturers deciding it was best to outsource manufacturing, William Alan Reinsch, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,"You build a big factory and you crank these things out by the thousands, and you do it in a low-wage, nonunion country that probably doesn't have environmental requirements," Reinsch said.
O'Brien is not the first to raise the idea of destroying Taiwan's semiconductor factories if China invades. Two US scholars"To start, the United States and Taiwan should lay plans for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain," the paper suggests.
For example, TSMC wouldn't be able to produce certain chips without components from Dutch supplier ASML, Chen said."Even if China got a hold of the golden hen, it won't be able to lay golden eggs," Chen said. As tensions between mainland China and Taiwan continue to escalate, experts are predicting a Chinese invasion of the island
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