Over 90% of leading-edge chips are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan — a democratic nation just 100 miles off the coast of China, which the CCP openly claims as its own territory. Given the stakes, it’s astonishing (almost absurd) that the entire global economy rests on a geopolitical fault line this volatile. Once you see what happens inside a TSMC production line, the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the atomic-level precision, the thousands of interlocking steps ,you realise TSMC isn’t