They need to look responsible, so look for propaganda proclaiming continuing some trump policies.
Or any action that actually makes good sence.
They will float their golden propaganda turd in the media,
folks will say " finally some sanity, maybe Josef IS on USA's side"
Then as soon as that turd cycle, umm I mean news cycle, moves to the next
BidenSlavers- R-Us (tm)
Will quietly dump the pro USA policy. and proceed on their planned destruction oh the Constitutional Republic and install global CCP Communism in its stead.
This " news themed" story re chips I believe is one such head fake bait and switch
Lays? Zaps? Clover club? Get your own damn potatoes!
Did they not promise 10% to the Big Guy?
A couple of thoughts...
The way the Nazis got information and money from Swiss banks is by inserting their own people as employees and by bribing low level people who were in the right positions to help them. This way, they got money that had been put into those banks by Jewish depositors. It wasn’t as if those depositors were likely to show up at the bank and try to withdraw it themselves. They also got information on non-Jewish Germans who were sneaking money out of Germany.
One day the NSA approached the company I was working for and asked if they could “have” some of our secret coded radios. It was for something that required that sort of communications but was not funded to buy the radios. There was some discussion about it, but the president said he simply couldn’t do it as all of our production was spoken for by our paying customer. *ahem* We have 13 of those in cabinets. They’re engineering and test models that we can’t ship and they have no other value. Can’t even use them for troubleshooting as they no longer match the current configuration.
Well, they were packaged up and delivered.
The point is, if someone deep inside the company wanted to get that technology out there are lots of ways to do it, especially in a large company. I can almost guarantee the top people don’t know what’s in the engineering cabinets and, when you get down to it, the pieces the Chinese need are probably a lot smaller than the entire thing.
One day at my international employer’s plant, we arrived to find 12 prototypes had gone missing. Several employees didn’t show up for work either and one top engineer went from our plant to work at the plant of a competitor. Naturally, there were lawsuits, but we ended up competing in the marketplace against our own hardware that we could no longer amortize the development costs on, because we had to meet the competitor’s price. Life sucks sometimes.
ASML bought the high-res technology from SVG-L, which was set up to monetize optical and other technology developed by Perkin-Elmer after P-E announced that it wanted to accept a purchase offer for its photolithography wafer-steppers from the Japanese back in the late 1980s.
The optical and laser micro-registration technology that Perkin Elmer leveraged into a leadership place in photolithography was directly adapted from their optical work on Keyhole/Hexagon spy satellites, which was developed in Wilton CT, on a hill overlooking the plant where their wafer steppers were assembled and tested.
Wall Street and Corporate America spent nearly 4 decades squeezing all the blood possible out of supply-chains, and American/western workers, particularly by using China to do so.
I believe that process is over. Now we will spend the next 4 decades paying that back, in the form of higher wages in the USA, supply-chain reconfigurations and disruptions, and moving supply-chains away from China.
“Hunter Biden sets record for highest paid living artist Latest painting sells for $25 million to anonymous buyer.” - January 1, 2022
“Joe Biden approved Chinese buyout of Dutch microchip manufacturer” - January 2, 2022.
China needs to make another “investment” with Hunter Biden then they’ll get their lithography tool.