If China invades Taiwan, it becomes the other trigger for global conflict that nobody is ready for. A Chinese military operation against the island could ignite simultaneously with or independently of the Middle East, and TSMC's semiconductor fabs make Taiwan the most strategically important real estate on Earth.

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