The 11-firm investigation is less a crackdown than a codification. Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau has been building this enforcement architecture since 2020, accumulating a body of cases that now gives authorities the institutional vocabulary to treat talent flight as technology transfer. When Taiwan's National Security Bureau formally tells its legislature that China is , it is not raising an alarm — it is establishing the legal and political rationale for treating an engineer's job offer as a potential security incident. That…