That's a really dangerous move that can entice China to invade Taiwan. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
Are questions that answer themselves. But they are the wrong questions.
It’s not China that’s the hostile actor here. It’s not China that’s meddling in distant affairs. This very thread pertains to an unilateral, unprompted hostile action by the US against China. And note that it’s not Trump’s doing. He’ll just do more of it, more openly.
And all of this is very much in line with America’s (at least) seven decades old strategic posture:
It doesn’t. But as the Empire’s grip on the world is slipping it will become more brazen, aggressive, openly selfish, erratic. Quod licet Iovi etc. A role Trump was born to play. But, as Europe’s economic woes after four years of D rule should tell you, it’s not just him who’s happy to cannibalize the Empire’s subjects.
That being said, even if they would. Under that assumption, I find the idea to further provoke them to doing that morally repulsive. It's an egomaniacal move that disregards Taiwanese people.
They won't be affected personally (unless the country rebels against them) so they can be fine to tank the economy if it gets them closer to some other goal (such as megalomaniac world domination).
"Provoke" means doing something with the intention to trigger an emotional or other reaction. That's not what Taiwan is doing.
It's clear if you pay attention, that China's putting inordinate efforts into other places. Africa is one example. (Probably the principal example.) So they clearly have ambitions that lay outside of Asia.
No one fakes moves like that at that scale. They're serious about what they're doing.
The Beijing regime is already in intense sub-threshold warfare on Taiwan and reiterate their false claim to the country's territory at every opportunity. Denying them access to the finest silicon processes will no doubt trigger more narcissist punishment tantrums delivered through PLA military provocations, or sabotage, or trade attacks, etcetera, but it's hardly going to matter for whether they launch the invasion. They will do that once they've built so many new nukes and cruisers that they like their chances against the total of Taiwan's defense forces plus any other military that could be expected to intervene.