The Trump administration is pushing Taipei to shift investment and chip production to the U.S. so that half of U.S. chip demand is manufactured locally.
  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    That would be a stupid move for them since that’s their only leverage to have us help protect them from China

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    But to do that, the US will have to give the Taiwanese experts business visas to come here, and then not harass them once they are here because they don’t look like they “belong” here.

    What are the chances of Stephen Miller allowing those things to happen? Every company is looking at what happened to the Hyundai plant in Georgia and trying to make sure they’re not next.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    “Send 50% of your production to America. We are going to learn how to make the chips but we are TOTALLY not going to look the other way when China invades and annexes you!”

  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
    6·
    12 hours ago

    Ship the them over to the US, stamp them with ‘made in america’ and repackage them. Isn’t that the normal approach to this?