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shavenferret 2 days ago
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Ryuu96 said:
shavenferret said:

I'm in the middle on this between complete lunacy/idiocy on one hand, and a complete win for America.  The move just seems odd given Trump's repeated insistence that China is the new big and growing threat towards America.  I think that he is wanting America to start building more chips, but this is a poor way to accomplish that.  He should be giving generous subsidies and so forth, not fighting against a weak nation that may get destroyed by China in the future.  

There is nothing wrong with wanting to bring chips manufacturing to America but this solution is like someone shooting themselves in the chest so they can see a doctor about a broken finger, Lol. It's so dumb it's unreal, it takes years to build chip factories, to scale them up, and you need the expertise as well. Taiwan is the best in this regard by a distance and America isn't catching up in Trump's term.

Someone told Trump about tariffs and now tariffs is his solution to everything. Whoever that person was needs a slap, Lol.

Better hope the idea is plan #1 and it's typical Trump bullshit to stroke his ego.

Though I do have a fear that once enough chips manufacturing moves out of Taiwan, America will abandon Taiwan in an instant, I don't believe America will defend Taiwan against China if Taiwan didn't have the world by the balls in chips manufacturing and my fear is that once that vanishes, nobody will be coming to Taiwan's rescue.

I don't know if it is necessarily #1, because Trump seems like his loyalty can be bought.  I distrust everything that he'll do, and we can never really know what Trump will do because we can't know Trump.  I've talked about this before but his only loyalty is looking good or perhaps making $$$$$ by any means if he can't look bad.