Every electronic Device used in the world has a silicon chip made in Taiwan. And if anything happens to Taiwan the entire world will know.
Yes, 100%.
With 90% of IC production capacity (and pretty much every complex machinery in general) being within 1000km of Taiwan, a war across the straight now would be a bye bye for the world economy.
But remember, wars are not being started by smart people. The Iraq war was started by a man who did not know where Iraq is on a map.
So good dream on TSMC will listen to you, their major source of revenue is come from Huawei
Not only them, the entire Taiwanese economy is 1/3 trade with the mainland. I for long said that in between second hand F16s and mainland's money, Taiwanese will choose money, without any doubt.
Don't be naive. Nuclear show down? pathetic American. China can guarantee we have enough nuclear eggs for you.
US policy on Taiwan has changed since the cold war, but not in the direction favouring them. American security guarantee to Taiwan today is worth, at most 1/3 of what it was by late eighties.
And even back then, we knew that USA was ready to f**k up their Taiwanese allies, basically playing protection racket. If Zhang Xianyi didn't do what he did, USA would've probably found themselves having hard time selling their services to Jiang Jingguo.
It is known now that Jiang was very close to showing middle finger to USA by 1988, but, fortunately to the US, he kicked the bucked before that, and GMD went down the hill after.