At the intersection of geopolitics and global commerce, former Taiwan President Tsai Ying-wen has placed a number on the unthinkable: two trillion dollars, the estimated cost of a war in the Taiwan Strait. The figure is not merely financial — it represents the potential unraveling of the semiconductor supply chains that power artificial intelligence and underpin the modern economy, built upon an island that produces 95 percent of the world's most advanced chips. As military pressure from Beijing intensifies and Taiwan's economic centrality deepens, the world finds itself bound ever more tightl