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If the US had bought 10% of TSMC, with no voting rights - just increased dependency - it would have sent a very strong signal.

Its an interesting idea, not a serious suggestion.

The US has been slowly but steadily sending the opposite signal over the past year: “just wait a little and you can have Taiwan”

If the US can replace the need for Taiwan... Yeah. They no longer matter to us if we can replace the manufacturing capacity.

That would have cost more than $100billion, not the $10billion for the same sized stake in intel.