[US academics stand by ‘scorched earth’ destruction of TSMC assets if China invades Taiwan] Some of the most respected scholars in the United States worry that Beijing will use military force against Taiwan, while other US-based analysts fret that Taiwan has become indefensible in the face of China’s military advances. In our ideal world, these pessimists would be wrong. We hope they are, but what if they are right? In a recent article, we considered this possibility. We concluded that it would be prudent for Taipei and Washington to develop a new approach to deterring a Chinese invasion one that...