Taiwan's Defense Minister Says Taiwan Will Not Let The U.S. 'Blow Up TSMC' If China Launches An Invasion

Taiwan is home to more than 90% of the manufacturing capacity for the world’s most advanced semiconductors, according to a 2021 Boston Consulting Group report. Pictured here is a TSMC building in Taiwan on April 8, 2022. Bloomberg  

Taiwan News: Defense minister says Taiwan will not let US 'blow up TSMC' during Chinese attack  

'If they want to bomb this or that,' armed forces will not tolerate this kind of situation 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) on Monday (May 8) said that the armed forces would not tolerate the destruction of any Taiwanese facility, in response to a suggestion by U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton that the U.S. should warn China that it would "blow up" Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) if it attacked Taiwan. 

At a conference organized by the California-based think tank Milken Institute in May, Moulton was asked what deterrence effect U.S. chip policy could have on China, to which he responded, "the U.S. should make it very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we're going to blow up TSMC." U.S. defense policy advisor and former government official Michele Flournoy quickly countered his remark, saying that if TSMC was destroyed, there would be a "two trillion dollar impact on the global economy within the first year" and "you'd put manufacturing around the world at a standstill." 

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Update: Taiwan Says Its Military Won’t Let the US Blow Up Semiconductor Factories (Antiwar.com)  

WNU Editor: What can Taiwan's DEfense Minsiter say? Sure .... blow up our semiconductor industry.

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