Posted on 11/22/2021 7:58:57 PM PST by elpadre
SEOUL – The middle ground between China and the United States is collapsing under South Korea’s feet as it is torn in opposite directions by the two giant economies it seeks to balance between.
On the one hand, it is being “requested” to submit detailed information on its flagship industrial sector to the United States – which is also pressuring the country’s number-two memory chipmaker to halt shipments of advanced machinery to China. That move could halt an upgrade to a major DRAM fab, in a sector where large-scale capital investment is crucial.
On the other hand, the country’s diesel vehicle drivers are suffering from operational angst after China halted exports of urea, used to make a solution that caps diesel emissions.
Former Korean War foe China is Korea’s largest trade partner. However, South Korea shares its political system, and its only significant security alliance and defense relationship, with the United States.
This is creating an increasingly fraught situation for a country at the center of trans-global supply webs in industries including semiconductors, electronic devices, autos, shipping, steel and petrochemicals, and for which international trade is the economic lifeblood. Chip angst, urea shortages
The number two player in Korea’s leading industry is currently being buffeted by risks swirling in the international trade environment as logistical problems and political animosities impact the value chain.
Chipmaker SK hynix, had planned to dispatch extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines made by Dutch firm ASML as it seeks a major modernization of its DRAM semiconductor plant in Wuxi, China.
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South Korea - bump for later...
I do not want to know the way China produces its urea.
Urea isn’t needed for diesels to run, it is only needed to control particulates. If South Korea (or any other country) cannot get the Urea it needs, there are options to operate without it.
Diesels running on Chinese piss. This is a wonderful era.
Modern trucks (Tier 4, Tier 4 final) will not run without DEF. Technically you are correct diesel engines don’t “need” DEF to run, but as a practical matter the PCM/ECM will set a DEF code and drop the engine back into “limp home mode”.
Yea, you’d have to reprogram to not go into limp mode, but it is doable.
We are at war with Eastasia.
Urea is from urine. Don’t they have enough piss in S Korea? Can’t they just waive the clean air standards temporarily?
So let me get this right? Our supposed educated persons of congress and senate never thought that essential product manufacturing was worth the money to keep within the North AMERICAN continent?.....dog and pony show......I scream at these heathen swinging dick’s and wenches they are not good........
“I don’t want to know the way China produces urea”.
Read no further.
Synthetic, NH3 & CO2 = (NH2)2CO
Warned ya not to read further.
I was reading that you could run 10% used crankcase oil in your diesel. I tried it in my early 2000 GMC and it would not run. Turns out they had electronic sensors that would not let you run dyed diesel.
It works fine in my 93 Dodge Cummins truck.
So my pot of p!ss might actually be a pot of gold?
Every POTUS from Nixon to Obama + Biden helped our enemy, China.
Chip shortages? Supply chain issues?
AMD is up about $65 since the middle of July.
Buy as it will keep going up.
They design cpu and graphic chips.
Due to a lack of natural gas - the Chinese have shut down their Natural Gas dependent fertilizer plants (urea). They recently banned exports of fertilizer because they do not believe they will have enough for domestic use.
England, Holland, Russia and China are all shutting down fertilizer plants. And, since 1/2 of 3rd world agriculture depends upon this imported fertilizer, it means that FAMINE is coming across the globe.
My only hope here is that this chip supply shortage will stop carmakers’ rush to replace reliable mechanical and hydraulic systems with unreliable electrical systems.
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