TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons

The weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that

Opinion Last year, the US Army War College published a paper suggesting that the Taiwanese government might give TSMC's chip fabs their own self-destruct systems in case China invaded. At the time, China said it had no interest in TSMC, thus defusing the Strangelove scenario. Now, the Middle Kingdom's talking about changing its mind. It might want TSMC very much indeed....