I think the plan is to defend, with allies motivated by the goal of saving TSMC facilities. If you destroy them the moment China declares war, Taiwanese allies might be much less invested

But at the same time everyone understands that the Taiwanese would destroy the facilities before they fall into Chinese hands

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schrectacular an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If both those are true, then shouldn't we expect China to destroy them as part of first offensive?

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scarab92 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would China care if Taiwan blows up its fabs?

The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?

	▲	r_lee an hour ago \| parent [-]
		wouldn't it be more likely that they'd flee to e.g. the US which would poach them and shower them with money? maybe easier said than done but still