Sure, but China can destroy TSMC regardless (it's cost-prohibitive to harden something the size of a semiconductor fab against even conventional, dumped-out-the

Sure, but China can destroy TSMC regardless (it's cost-prohibitive to harden something the size of a semiconductor fab against even conventional, dumped-out-the-back-of-a-aircraft bombing). The point of a scuttling system is not to prevent it from being destroyed, but to prevent the enemy from gaining any benefit from capturing it.