> Should I remind of the fact that Taiwan was very glad to sell any amount of semiconductors to mainland China.

> If anybody had an option to strangle them economically, it would've been Taiwanese themselves

> China is world's biggest semiconductor market. If the tap will close on their semiconductor imports, so would've their economy at large.

Why would anyone (least of all Taiwan) want this? Trade isn't a zero-sum game, and both parties benefit from it. Trade wars are very unpredictable, as the way the US lost the Trump-era trade war with China shows.

It's true that some in the US see China as a rival that must be "strangled". Views outside the US are much more nuanced - China isn't going to disappear and is way too big to just strangle. There are major issues dealing with China, though.