Then what? That isn't hard to figure out.
If China invades Taiwan before enough TSMC plants are built in America to meet American, and by extension - Western - demand for electronics, then it's war. Period, end of story.
There is no fucking way in any timeline in any alternate universe that Western electronics companies can allow China to put their businesses on hold, because it isn't just a bunch of AMD and Qualcomm CPUs... it's every automotive company in the Western world. It's every appliance manufacturer in the Western world PLUS South Korea.
China will go right back to 1820. Damn near dead fucking last on the world stage.
The Communist party leadership would probably kill Xi Jinping before allowing him to make such a monumental mistake. And nuclear war isn't an option either, because all of China will end up completely uninhabitable if even a single major American city gets targeted.
And it won't just be "America vs. China" either, it'll be "Every Western nation vs. China". And China will lose. Badly.
If China invades Taiwan before enough TSMC plants are built in America to meet American, and by extension - Western - demand for electronics, then it's war. Period, end of story.
There is no fucking way in any timeline in any alternate universe that Western electronics companies can allow China to put their businesses on hold, because it isn't just a bunch of AMD and Qualcomm CPUs... it's every automotive company in the Western world. It's every appliance manufacturer in the Western world PLUS South Korea.
China will go right back to 1820. Damn near dead fucking last on the world stage.
The Communist party leadership would probably kill Xi Jinping before allowing him to make such a monumental mistake. And nuclear war isn't an option either, because all of China will end up completely uninhabitable if even a single major American city gets targeted.
And it won't just be "America vs. China" either, it'll be "Every Western nation vs. China". And China will lose. Badly.