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You can imagine anything from the US trying to steal any valuable materials or information related to lithography that it can, to actively destroying what it can't usefully steal, right? It's not like both sides would just sit there and declare foreign strategically-important companies off-limits.

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Yes, of course. Both would presumably proceed in that way. Microchip factories etc. are very reasonable targets in a war.