Subject: Re: Cost asymmetry in modern warfare
China will be more likely to use scalpels instead of bludgeons to avoid damaging TSMC.

Doesn't matter. TSMC and the military will destroy the high-end production eqpt if China looks like it will take over Taiwan. The people who know how to make/use that eqpt (and related tech) will be evacuated to the US to prevent them from being forced to show the Chinese how the tech is produced and used.