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[Ryuu96]

shavenferret said:

Ryuu96 said:

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. 

I think we're saying the same thing, Lol.

I'm saying that this is probably a fake threat and he won't go through with it, the countries will talk to him, offer him a minor concession that won't change a thing, but he will sell it as a massive win because Trump cares most about his own ego and like you said, looking good. His fanbase will lap it up and call him a genius negotiator. I believe this is what he is doing with Canada and Mexico and in the last minute the tariffs will be stopped and he'll claim he made an amazing deal with them both but it will actually be a minor change or not a change at all. He loves stroking his ego and looking like a master negotiator when his only tactic is "TARIFFS!" and then people much smarter than him throwing him a baby rattle.

Or he has completely lost the plot, Lol. Would be curious to see how quickly America implodes if they tariff TSMC/Taiwan.

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