Trump’s Taiwan Comments Fuel TSMC Selloff

Donald Trump took aim at Taiwan's chip-production dominance, saying the American ally should pay for U.S. defense, in a Bloomberg Businessweek interview published Tuesday. The comments sparked a selloff in shares of Taiwan's TSMC,

Trump Invites China to Invade Taiwan If He Returns to Office

The traditional reasons for preventing a Chinese invasion of Taiwan include supporting democracy, which is if anything a negative in Trump’s mind (he admires dictators of all stripes, very much including the Chinese Communist Party). The most important reason is to avoid bloodshed, chaos, and disruption.