This month we've had five waves of Americans going to Taiwan: every single one of them wanted to talk about TSMC.Looks like the ROC is mad their salami slicing didn’t go as planned.
Keep salami slicing and you will see them inch closer and closer. Go on. Attack them. See what will happen.
So we know US really really wants to rob ROC of TSMC, and they fact that they keep going shows ROC is actually resisting.
You see how in this announcement they didn't say anything about US coming to their aid but it's all about them by themselves fighting off PLA? They will then use this to go back to the Americans and say "you see what you made me do? My people are asking me: if the Americans won't come to our defense why should we give up TSMC?"