"Bloodless takeover" is assuming a lot. Pro unification is a very fringe position: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Unification_Promotion_Party https://e

"Bloodless takeover" is assuming a lot. Pro unification is a very fringe position: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Unification_Promotion_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Unification_Promotio... It seems very unlikely to me that between KMT loyalist troops and angry mobs that China would simply be allowed to take Taiwan without violence, and that nobody would decide to use TSMC as a hostage. See the Swiss strategy, where every bridge and tunnel has its explosives pre-placed when it was built.