We’re funding Taiwan because they produce the vast majority of advanced integrated circuits in the world. If the PRC decides to invade Taiwan, you should know that one of their contingency plans for being overrun is to literally blow up every single one of their chip foundries and all the critical equipment in them.
That second part, by the way, was likely one of the impetuses for the PRC taking it on the chin right now by blacklisting AMD and Intel from their critical infrastructure, nationwide.