Taiwan will sabotage infrastructure in such a scenario, but this line of analysis seems nonsensical. Incorporate Taiwan in to China and the world loses the ability to manufacture some chips that the West are reliant on which further solidifies China’s influence globally.
Except I would bet that it would be faster for ASLM to provide another machine somewhere else than and restart the production (even assuming that all the production is done in Taiwan) than for China to duplicate the machine. And this assuming, as I said, that China is already able to produce what is needed, else you need to add the time China would need to built the machines used to build the ASLM machines. Knowing what to build is different to being able to do it.
Others will be forced to buy technology from China, even if it’s not as advanced as what Taiwan sold before. Who else is manufacturing these things? Not America.
Or just buy machines from ASLM and start producing, for example, in Europe, Japan or everywhere else.
But as I said, even China cannot do without Taiwan, they need the chips TMSC and other are producing and they know that when the first soldier put a foot on Taiwan, the machines stop. And in the remote case they where able to size the machines before ASLM could brick them, to destroy such machines you just need an open port, it is really easy to destroy them, not considering that they need a lot of specialized people to run it and a lot of specialized parts and consumable, that ASLM will not send anymore.
China doesn’t need Taiwan. America needs Taiwan.
China need what is in Taiwan but know that they cannot take it without destroying it.
Except I would bet that it would be faster for ASLM to provide another machine somewhere else than and restart the production (even assuming that all the production is done in Taiwan) than for China to duplicate the machine. And this assuming, as I said, that China is already able to produce what is needed, else you need to add the time China would need to built the machines used to build the ASLM machines. Knowing what to build is different to being able to do it.
Or just buy machines from ASLM and start producing, for example, in Europe, Japan or everywhere else.
But as I said, even China cannot do without Taiwan, they need the chips TMSC and other are producing and they know that when the first soldier put a foot on Taiwan, the machines stop. And in the remote case they where able to size the machines before ASLM could brick them, to destroy such machines you just need an open port, it is really easy to destroy them, not considering that they need a lot of specialized people to run it and a lot of specialized parts and consumable, that ASLM will not send anymore.
China need what is in Taiwan but know that they cannot take it without destroying it.