You make it sound like China is free to attack as soon as it is reasonably independent of products manufactured by the TSMC. That's a scary thought because the

You make it sound like China is free to attack as soon as it is reasonably independent of products manufactured by the TSMC. That's a scary thought because the rest of the world probably wouldn't be, putting China at an advantage over the rest of the world. The only way to stop that would be to make such a war effort itself too costly, which seems unrealistic.