What really baffles me is how Taiwans leadership can’t see the US endgame with the CHIPs act and the Chinese sanctions. The US government wants to steal TSMC by using subterfuge, sheer force and malice, while making Taiwan paying for it by refusing the revenue of selling advanced chips to China. Not even TSMC should feel safe even if they successfully relocate themselves to the US. Buccaneering has a long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries and as TikTok shows the US has no qualms in preaching free commerce, stable legal rules and all that bullshit to everyone else, while doing the most egregious mercantilist stuff without even an once of shame.