'Attack' as used in the previous post with regards to the US and Taiwan is the wrong word. China could claim that the US wants to control Taiwan's chip industry in order to dominate China...

In essence, either side could take action on Taiwan on the premise that the other side is about to take control of the chip industry. But here, China would have, oddly, more moral authority because regardless of what you and I and the average Taiwanese thinks, most nations have agreed that there's one China and that Taiwan is sort of kind of part of it but not really but we want your business, China, so OK we'll say whatever you want.

And with the fuckery that the US has pulled in recent months, it wouldn't take much to convince the world that the US is about to mess with Taiwan and make prices around the world go up even more. Trump has handed Xi a blockade pass.