Comment by actionfromafar
18 hours ago
And now China knows the US expects this and it also knows the US does not expect to stop China, so China knows that it can expect the US to do very little. It's game theory turtles all the way down...
Edit: I think it's a misconception that China cares much about fabs in Taiwan. It wants unification.
It also means that China can expect the destruction of Taiwan's fabs to hurt the US less than China.
Combine that with the US's ability to unilaterally destroy Taiwan's fabs, and it sways the calculation a bit