Comment on Trump's defense policy pick once said TSMC can't end up in Chinese hands if China takes Taiwan

"Disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes if China is taking over Taiwan," Elbridge Colby wrote in an X post in February. President-elect Donald Trump picked Colby as his next undersecretary of defense policy at the Pentagon.Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via Getty Images; Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump named Elbridge Colby as his next undersecretary of defense policy.In February, Colby said "disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes" if China invades Taiwan.Colby made the same point in 2023, saying the US should never allow TSMC to fall into Chinese hands.President-elect Donald Trump's pick for undersecretary of defense policy, Elbridge Colby, once called for the destruction of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's chip plants if China takes over Taiwan."There's no scenario in which Taiwan falls to the PRC and Taiwanese can expect TSMC and its central role to persist," Colby, a former senior Pentagon official, wrote in an X thread in May 2023."If China attacks Taiwan, Taiwan itself and US should not allow TSMC to fall intact into PRC hands," Colby wrote in the thread.TSMC, Colby wrote, needs to be included in the US' semiconductor sanctions against China in the event that Taiwan surrenders.