They never sleep....
"Bringing a couple of thousand engineers to the United States would deny Chinese occupiers the full value of TSMC’s chip factories post-invasion and secure the sufficient talent to lead the herculean national effort to save the U.S. economy by crash-building a TSMC based in the United States."
"The U.S. government can identify Taiwan’s top engineers with unique knowledge gleaned from practical experience that only they have mastered <...> Washington would then engage with Taipei to gather the targeted engineers and quietly fly them to the United States"
"There is historical precedent for this idea. In
Operation Paperclip immediately after World War II, the United States and its allies evacuated more than 1,500 scientists and engineers from Germany. German scientists were years ahead of their American and their Soviet counterparts in fields like rocketry, aeronautics, and synthetic fuels."
All these pearls all wisdom (/s) are from "The American Enterprise Institute", one of the many Washington, D.C.–based
neocon think tanks.