Remember the domino theory.
That said, if we will not protect Taiwan, we need to start making our own microchips, like, yesterday.
In repeated war games, we cannot defend Taiwan. All of Taiwan and surrounding areas are well within range of 100s if not thousands of ChiCom land-based hypersonic ship killing missiles.
OTOH, it will not be a cakewalk to invade Taiwan, since it is 20 times larger than Okinawa, with a much greater population, and 10K’ mountains.
My prediction: China will not overtly invade Taiwan, but will gradually put the screws to it with a sea blockade, daring the USN to defy it, putting our warships in ChiCom missile range.
Remember, in war games, the USN gets sunk by those missiles. Our CVNs can’t even get close enough to Taiwan to launch aircraft before they’d be hit with salvos of missiles.
> we need to start making our own microchips, like, yesterday.
That’s why TSMC is spending billion$ building fabs in the continental US. They’re preparing for the day the commies grab all their stuff.