Posted on 08/08/2022 7:57:52 AM PDT by FarCenter
China plus Hong Kong are 42.3% of Taiwan's exports.
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Yeah, but from what I’ve been lectured, we get 100% of our, unable to be made in the US, chips from Taiwan. At least enough that it’s worth potentially fighting WWIII over.
Bad or obsolete graphic, as Hong Kong is now part of Mainland China and should be included with it, not separated out.
Something like 10-15% of Taiwanese citizens also live and work in mainland China. Many of Taiwan’s largest brands and companies are also major brands in China. Up until before the period before Covid, young Taiwanese white-collar and professional workers very much wanted to take jobs and internal transfers to China, for the chance to work in a much larger and growing market.
We do make chips in the USA.
LOTS of them!
Arizona and Oregon have the largest fabs in the country.
The problem is they are only for Intel.
All the other companies use a “fabless” design methodology.
It is far less expensive than investing in a $4B fab with all the problems that causes.
Building more capacity of whatever we need, like the one just announced in Ohio, is still a little less expensive than another $75B lark like Ukraine or maybe WWIII.
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of China and still conforms to the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. However, the government of Hong Kong is now more like it was prior to 1984 than it was just prior to the 1997 reunification, with Beijing playing the role formerly played by London. The changes to government between 1984 and 1997 have been largely undone, so Hong Kong is a separately administered colony of China instead of being a British Crown Colony.
Gobbledygook - its part of mainland China as far as the CCP is concerned, and therefore, should be counted - stop falling for Chinese propaganda.
The world’s doormat, the USA, puts up with Taiwanese import duties ( around 8% ) and we let their stuff in for free. Yes, we are that dumb. We seem to hate our workers that much. We wonder why the Republicans can’t seem to get a majority....
Texas Instruments, Tower Semiconductor, Micron, BAE Systems, Qorvo, Analog Devices, Microchip, Renesas, NXP, Skyworks, ON Semiconductor, Infineon, Gobal Foundries and a number of other have fabs in the US.
Admittedly, a lot of them are older and use coarser production line widths, but that is what you need for military equipment which has very long design and procurement cycles, such that it is obsolete by the time it is fielded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants
Not to worry ..
It’ll only take us ten years to start making high end chips ourselves...
We can do without cars, trucks, factory equipment etc. easily for a decade or two, right? /s
Leadership of the Free World and Global Military and Financial Hegemony are priority number 1.
American citizens and workers are well down the priority list.
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