> We could easily solve that problem if we were willing to do what China is doing, which is paying Taiwanese PhDs, engineers, and technicians to come to the US. Give them a streamlined visa and green card process, and pay them a cash bonus to emigrate.

Well actually ... TSMC poached a number of Intel employees (who already had green cards and/or naturalized citizens). If Intel could have paid them more to stay, I'm sure they would have.