I just wish American president was someone like the Taiwanese president. She is a strong, powerful and smart lady.
I don't doubt that the Taiwanese president is smart, which is why I doubt this story.
No, the opposite. Real trade enables balanced long-term interdependency, growth and innovation, unlike "free" trade focused on extraction and asymmetrical flows. The most valuable assets brought to the table by Taiwan and the USA are culture and these are complementary in the long term.
Taiwan needs all the leverage it can get, and giving the US the gift of no longer needing it would be the dumbest thing TSMC could do in the long and short term.
A real partnership can create more leverage, not less, instead of holding one card until it is overtaken by events.
The US had no issues using the NSA to spy on German IP and even bug the cellphone of Angela Merkel. And well, given that no consequences ever materialized, it won't seem like they'd need to stop at any time.
So given that, thinking that the US has "strong laws" is a tad naive. You know, since literally the opposite already happened.
Tesla factory in Shanghai - if there is a war, all bets are off. CCP will raid the factory within the next 20 mins and employ military rule in the factory in about an hour's notice.
Physical assets are in some ways the ultimate thing to own. Even services that run on data centers which are physical things. Semiconductors are physical objects that your Dropbox runs on.