Sorry but what good is it to kill the people that actually staff TSMC's foundries? The premise of this entire thread is based around the idea that the PRC would

Sorry but what good is it to kill the people that actually staff TSMC's foundries? The premise of this entire thread is based around the idea that the PRC would want their hands on TSMC's foundries, that means an invasion that actually preserves Taiwanese infrastructure and lives, not an impersonal shelling of the whole bloody island, even if they could do it without triggering a war with the US (debatable, but still a genuine consideration).