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Top Economist Urges China to Seize TSMC If US Ramps Up Sanctions
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Mecanix:
Is this some kind of stupid media group fud click-bait, bluffing to get Taiwan in the Western Arms Trade incentives, or we're seriously dealing with some Int'l kindergarten politics? How to unvote them all, I had it...

"...The Global Fight Over Chips Is About to Get Even Worse"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-economist-urges-china-seize-043050394.html
raptor1956:
Well TSMC is obviously aware of such ideas and is rapidly moving to build factories in the USA to prevent China from focusing on them.  Once they have factories up and running in the USA they leverage China thinks they have will be greatly reduced.  But, if China were to undertake anything like capturing or destroying TSMC in Taiwan they will be hit with sanctions every bit as tough as what Russia is dealing with.  But it will be FAR worse for China -- if they do something that kicks in such sanctions then their economy will zero out overnight and hundreds of millions of Chinese will discover they were "at will" workers that are no longer wanted. 

So, the sequence of events might go like this:

1.  TSMC builds factories in the USA
2.  China attacks Taiwan and captures or destroys TSMC
3.  The world imposes massive sanctions on China
4.  Hundreds of millions of workers in China are fired given the lack of markets for their products
5.  The Chinese people revolt against their government and the government is toppled, albeit with enormous loss of life -- perhaps millions dead
6.  The west will struggle to rebuild the manufacturing they gave to China and for years there will be hardships
7.  The west will realize that following the outsourcing plans of Wall Street were an unforgivable crime and proponents of outsourcing will spend significant time in court defending the indefensible

Brian
SiliconWizard:
It all just looks like putting children in power.
coppice:
TSMC is kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they diversify their locations that are less physically vulnerable to what China, or any other government, might do. On the other hand they've found their costs are far higher every time they've done fabrication outside Taiwan, which obviously hurts their competitiveness.
rsjsouza:
I would take any news in this with a pound of salt.
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