Posted on 05/14/2020 6:02:29 PM PDT by Candor7
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been in discussions for several years with both TSMC and Intel to build advanced chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. and extract U.S. supply chain needs from China and southeast Asia. It appears his efforts, and the emphasis on global supply-chain shifts from President Trump, are getting results.
According to numerous media reports Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is likely to announce this week they will build an advanced chip manufacturing facility in Arizona. A manufacturing facility for advanced 5 nanometer chip manufacturing is a steep investment decision costing around $10 billion.
This shift in a high-tech supply chain will align with President Trump’s prior discussions with Tim Cook the CEO of Apple which led to a decision to invest in Texas. TSMC is a chip supplier for Apple products; and Apple is moving to the 5nm processors in new devices. It looks like the movement of advanced industrial products away from China is underway.
(Via Appleinsider) – Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is set to announce that it plans to build an advanced chip factory in Arizona.
Taiwan-based TSMC is the world’s largest contract manufacturer of silicon chipsets and has long been Apple’s primary supplier of A-series chips.
Now, TSMC is said to be on the verge of announcing new plans to build out an advanced 5-nanometer facility in Arizona, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The decision, reached by TSMC executives at a board meeting in Taiwan on Tuesday, could be announced as soon as Friday. (link)
This move is a direct result of President Trump playing the economic long-game with an assembly of interests… one result within a much bigger picture.
President Trump has been creating a dual position for several years; this is very unique because it is the same strategy used by China. By expressing a panda mask, yet concealing the underlying dragon, President Trump’s policy to China is a mirror of themselves.
Historic Chinese geopolitical policy, vis-a-vis their totalitarian control over political sentiment (action) and diplomacy through silence, is evident in the strategic use of the space between carefully chosen words, not just the words themselves.
Each time China takes aggressive action (red dragon) China projects a panda face through silence and non-response to opinion of that action;…. and the action continues. The red dragon has a tendency to say one necessary thing publicly, while manipulating another necessary thing privately. The Art of War.
President Trump is the first U.S. President to understand how the red dragon hides behind the panda mask.
First he got their attention with tariffs. Then… On one hand President Trump has engaged in very public and friendly trade negotiations with China (panda approach); yet on the other hand, long before the Wuhan virus, Trump fractured their global supply chains, influenced the movement of industrial goods to alternate nations, and incentivized an exodus of manufacturing (dragon result).
It is specifically because he understands that Panda is a mask that President Trump messages warmth toward the Chinese people, and pours vociferous praise upon Xi Jinping, while simultaneously confronting the geopolitical doctrine of the Xi regime.
In essence Trump is mirroring the behavior of China while confronting their economic duplicity.
There is no doubt in my mind that President Trump has a very well thought out long-term strategy regarding China. President Trump takes strategic messaging toward the people of china very importantly. President Trump has, very publicly, complimented the friendship he feels toward President Xi Jinping; and praises Chairman Xi for his character, strength and purposeful leadership.
To build upon that projected and strategic message – President Trump seeded the background by appointing Ambassador Terry Branstad, a 30-year personal friend of President Xi Jinping.
To enhance and amplify the message – and broadcast cultural respect – President Trump used Mar-a-Lago as the venue for their first visit, not the White House. And President Trump’s beautiful granddaughter, Arabella, sweetly serenaded the Chinese First Family twice in Mandarin Chinese song showing the utmost respect for the guests and later for the hosts.
All of this activity mirrors the duplicity of China. From the November 2017 tour of Asia to the January 2020 China phase-1 trade deal, President Trump has been positioning, for an economic decoupling and a complete realignment of global trade and manufacturing.
This announcement by TSMC today is one small part of a much bigger economic reset currently underway. Beijing isn’t stupid, they can see themselves being outwitted and outplayed. President Trump is winning.
Thank You President Trump!
We truly are at war with china. But its a long game, the slow China creep.Red China wants the West to die from a thousand cuts and be come dependent on the totalitarian state of China, which will gain world wide hegemony first and then it will move to bring the whole world under Red Chinese totalitarian control via economic dependence and fianally through force majeur.
Thats the Red China plan.
It was working quite well for Red China until President
Donald Trump came along. The Red Chinese want rid of President Trump in the worst way, and so the socialist left of America and the Main Stream unAmerican media have become Red China’s agents here in our own country.
few People realize that Xi Jinping spent 2 weeks in the USA*. He knows the weaknesses posed by the left and Dem party and is taking full advantage of it.Xi also knows that in America, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass, and Red China supports the lefts disarmament of civic America by cultivating an anti gun presence on the Web, how uncivilized private gun ownership is.
President Trump has recognized Xi Jinping’s game and plays it just as well as Xi does.
If china moves to close the China Straights in the South China Sea, there wil;l be military action.But it will cme as a complete and utter surprise right out of the bluie. A Democrat President couldn’t handle it, but President Trump can.
The very safety and independence of our nation depends on the re-election of Donald trump on November 3rd.
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In 1985, as part of a Chinese delegation to study U.S. agriculture, he stayed in the home of an American family in the town of Muscatine, Iowa. This trip, and his two-week stay with a U.S. family, is said to have had a lasting impression upon him and his views on the United States.[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
I just HAD to say it out loud!
Sand is just small pieces of rock.
Everyone has rock!
That’s pretty impressive.
It sure is; considering where we came from!!
We have ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia.
We have ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia.>
That’s true,
But THIS war with China is characterized genuinely as “the Art of War without war,” illucidated by Tsun Tzu in the Classic “ The Art of War.”
Or as Bruce Lee often said:
The Art of fighting without Fighting.
By using the art of fighting without fighting, Red China has fooled the lefty Alinskyite Dems. but not the Populists who support the president or the President himself.
Indeed the president has learned the art of fighting without fighting extremely well.
WE ARE NOW AT WAR WITH RED CHINA!
Something no one should forget even for a nano-second.
Anything less is mere competition.
Without fixed rules; I might add...
Excellent summation worth passing around
It is a lot easier and cheaper to get pre-made, already existing sand instead of trying to make it from rock.
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