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by jjk166 1063 days ago
The people with the expertise to design, setup, run, maintain, and improve the fabs will still be in Taiwan. The US will seek a secure source no matter what. By building fabs in the US, TSMC reduces the incentive for the US to bypass it and develop those expertise for themselves.

Conversely, if Taiwan relied on its fabs to incentivize protection, what happens after those fabs get destroyed in the opening minutes of the conflict?