Why do people comment when they understand so little about the China/Taiwan issue? It has never been about semiconductors, that topic only exists as a post-rationalization of why the U.S. should continue to protect Taiwan against PRC takeover.

It has always been a legitimacy issue over who is the legitimate heir of the Chinese empire. China is still in a civil war. The communists (CCP) conquered the mainland and the former ruling party of China (KMT) fled to Taiwan. Taiwan is more successful than mainland China per capita on almost every standard economic and human development metric. It exists as a thorn in Beijing's side.

From the PRC perspective, reunification is a matter of national pride, and has nothing to do with semiconductors.

Like Russia had a hard time seeing Ukraine be successful.