[friendstock]

China is invading Taiwan because of misguided nationalistic pride and internal legitimacy, not to gain TSMC.

If possible, Taiwan should keep TSMC so that the West has a reason to defend Taiwan.

[krona]

Taiwan would be destroyed in an invasion, TSMC along with it. China would then have a de-facto monopoly on semiconductor manufacturing. This is why the manufacturing needs to diversify geographically.

[FooBarWidget]

Isn't Samsung also pretty close?

[thow-58d4e8b]

It goes both ways - China claims Taiwan as theirs, but also Taiwan claims China as theirs

Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war

[CogitoCogito]

> Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war

Your wording is a bit vague, but it sounds like you have it backwards. Taiwan's dropping of claims to the mainland may trigger a _Chinese_ declaration of war. That comes from certain interpretations of article 8 of the China's Anti-Secession law. Of course China doesn't actually have to declare war in this situation if they don't want to. They could always interpret it differently or they could simply ignore it (China's laws guarantee free speech after all and they certainly don't seem to have trouble getting around that).

[mantas]

More like communistic pride that opposing force is still doing well. Taiwan's KMT was the original nationalist party in China.