[devKnight]

wonder if there's a plan to evac everyone who has crucial know-how abroad, a la Operation Paperclip and its soviet counterpart. If they can move all of the machinery and people out in time( This is taking into account, that the worst has come to happen ). They could setup shop elsewhere in probably under a year.

[post_from_work]

I've somewhat joked on other forums that this is exactly what the US should do. Wholesale shift the entire population and industry of Taiwan to Texas/Arizona/New Mexico/Colorado. Green cards for everyone. Like when the Soviets shifted their heavy industry to the Urals during Operation Barbarossa. The Chinese military would walk into Taipei and only find a note with "you wanted this rock...you can have it middle finger" as a tumbleweed rolls by...

[vladTheInhaler]

I don't think there's any chance moving most of that machinery on short notice, what with the incredibly small tolerances and clean-room conditions required in that industry. Here [1] is one EUV source. It's the size of a shipping container. The power source is "so large that it has to be placed on a separate floor". And that's just one tiny (but essential) piece of the puzzle. You would have to somehow bundle it up totally airtight, get it to the port, and safely across the ocean through an enemy blockade. Possibly while troops are landing at the beaches, and planes are bombing you.

The personnel seem a bit more possible, though I'm sure China would not be interested in its most economically productive "citizens" fleeing, so it probably wouldn't allow them through a naval blockade either.

[1] https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs/article/14039015/how-d...