China’s motivation is NOT grabbing semiconductor factories. I think everyone realizes that these are both capital and intellectual intensive industries, which would likely be damaged (or sabotaged) during a war, managers and technicians would scatter, and there would be an embargo on parts and equipment.
China’s motivation for grabbing Taiwan has always been ideological and historical - That Taiwan belongs to China is propagandized into every Chinese citizen, every day.
There’s also some strategic benefit, in that China’s Navy/submarines is also hemmed-in by US Bases and allies in shallow water operating areas. At present, its difficult/impossible for them to get into deep-water without being constrained and detected
China’s motivation for grabbing Taiwan has always been ideological and historical - That Taiwan belongs to China is propagandized into every Chinese citizen, every day.
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Historical?
Ideological, moe likely.
Look up the history of Formosa(Taiwan).
A few other countries controlled Taiwan(Formosa) for centuries. The Japanese controlled Formosa from the 19th century until 1945 at the end of World War II. The Nationalist Chinese (The Rupublic of China) then gained control, and kept it, moving their government to the island in 1948, after the Communist took over the mainland. Just as other nations did after German occupation during WWII (governments in exile).
The Republic of China, an original signatory to the UN Charter in 1945, and its predicesor in 1942, held a seat on the UN Security Council until the autumn of 1971, when the Communist Chinese by vote of the General Assembly of the UN took over the seat inthe General Assembly and the Security Council.
So between 1945 and 1948, The Republic of China ruled all of China, including Formosa, which they had gained as a result of WWII. They then withdrew and have existed as a separate country on the island of Formosa, since.