Security News > 2022 > January > US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

A top US Army War College paper suggests Taiwan should credibly threaten to eradicate, or eradicate, its semiconductor industry if threatened by China so that Beijing would no longer be interested in unification.

The US Army War College showed the paper was its most popular of the year, when it revealed it topped a list of the most downloaded papers of 2021 from its quarterly academic journal Parameters.

Potential war with the US over Taiwan is no longer a deterrent for China as Beijing believes its military would dominate.

The boffins say that in order for this to succeed, China really does have to believe Taiwan will go through with the threat and suggests designing an automated mechanism to destroy the foundries if China were to invade.

The Chinese State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office responded on 23 December by denying that TSMC was the reason the country was seeking reunification with Taiwan.

As for China's struggle in the global chip drought, the US has continually found ways to starve China of semiconductor technology, including trade sanctions and blocking mergers involving Chinese companies.

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