WTF?South Korea paid only $350 billion even though their economy is larger.https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20251124050000009
>>522130594The empire demands tribute from its demesnes
>>522130594>DEMANDSLibturd exaggeration. STFU, demented freaks.
Yeah he's probably been made aware of TSMCs plan to keep their US facilities a generation behind the Taiwan plants in perpetuity. So now he's throwing a melty
>>522130594dont we protect them from china? maybe it's like paying for a security guard?
>>522130594Genuine question, why should I as an American care if China takes Taiwan?
>>522130594LOL. Pony up Jensen. Trump wants his vidya card.
Vassals have to pay up
>>522130793This is for reducing tariffs on Taiwanese goods.
>>522130867Modern chip fabrication is primarily conducted in Taiwan, and one of their core deterrent strategies is to destroy those machines if they are invaded. Modern technology would end and America hasn't yet rebuilt the industrial base necessary to survive that
>>522130594it would be easier and cheaper on everyone to just make a chip deal with xi and let them take the island
Feels so good to be an ally of the JewSA!!
>>522131002It's also important to note that the USAs domestic fabrication capability comes in three flavours.- Entirely domestic companies who are stuck in the 90s making obscure stuff using the same equipment they've used for decades that was made by companies that don't exist anymore. Basically on par with Russia. - SEA outposts operated by companies like Samsung or TSMC. Heavily reliant on the parent company, literally can't function without them.- Intel. Who can't stop failing and now only survive because of their historic position and the US government keeps shoveling money into that pit.
>>522130712No other country can handle making the latest gen, even Samsung couldn't. It requires tiny little chink hands, even other Asian hands are too big
>>522131002>Modern technology would endOh no not the dystopian slave grid! >>522131573>IntelThe US shovels money into it because they are Israeli
>>522131490Try telling Trump that. That fat orange nonce wants all the cake, and to eat it
>>522131727Nah Intel has cut itself off from Israel at this point.It was quite the coup on Israels part but the whole thing was such a disaster they've shut down R&D in Israel and reshored it to the USAIntel Israel still operates. But its mainly focused on manufacturing and sales in that region.They also cancelled a planned manufacturing plant in Israel
Finally the empire is demanding money flow in instead of out. The neoliberal world order was insane where the empire paid tribute to losers
>>522131002sounds like a made up geopolitical game for the US to pour money into
>>522130594It's fair and make sense. They are online alive because of team america world police. Nothing is free. Aircraft carriers and Arleight Burkes cost money.Time to pay up, Chang, or you gonna end up gutter oil.
>>522130594What the hell is the Trump admin doing? Their foreign policy seems to be centered around economically strong-arming allies.
>>522130594I wonder how the world would react if Trump just orders all the mil base soldiers to loot the countries and fly back.
>>522131944The entire world economy is about to implode from the green energy open borders welfare state scam so they're doubling down on the chip manufacturing scam
>>522130594Or wut?
>>522131002>constant new smartphones and AI to continue destroying everyone's lives would stop and America would have to learn to build complex shit againOH GOD NO NOT THAT! Are you niggers retarded? We should all be hoping that Taiwan gets glassed.
>>522131842>Intel has cut itself off from Israel at this point.Interesting did not know that. Intel is a total shit show at this point, agree. I'll only buy AMD for any new AMD64 stuff I need
>>522130867Because Taiwan is an ally and has been for 80 years and throwing an historic alley under the buss is a gross misuse of friendship and will turn future possible frens away
>>522130594Samsung already has 2 manufacturing plants in Texas. Hyundai has factory in Alabama and LG has many factories across US.Taiwan on the other hand is very reluctant with moving manufacturing chipsets to US for obvious reasons.
>>522132128The Israeli R&D was just that much of a disaster And the US government struck with threats to Intels privileged access to the government market So the Israeli leadership within the company got purged and a new engineering led leadership was put in place.They weren't able to fix the many problems plaguing the company.But hey they tried and they moved R&D back home which saved the company thanks to it keeping their stranglehold on the US government procurement and opened up basically unlimited funding as they're the USAs only domestic manufacturer that isn't a relic of a distant past.
>>522130867>Why should Americans care if China absorbs one of if not the most critical economic allyI dono man probably trannies or somethin
>>522132301As it stands the majority of production in the USA by these companies is old technology.Which for most purposes isn't bad. As the majority of applications don't want the cutting edge. This is why you have a gaggle of companies in the USA who have just kept churning out stuff from the late 90sBut theres a lot of concerns about future tech stuff like AI which requires the bleeding edge. As it stands nobody is looking to move that to the USA and Intel is currently unable to reliably produce it.
>>522130594Asians are so servile they will probably pay it. They have no backbone in their little yellow bodies. They’re just a soft jelly on the inside
>>522130707What would be less triggering for you, strongly suggests?
>>522130712It’s not that they plan to keep them a generation behind, is that they are unable to manufacture good shit in the US because of supply chain and workforce constraints.
>>522132763It's obviously intentional. Why the fuck would Taiwan relocate the one thing that guarantees American protection?
>>522132763Have you looked at the construction schedule on the fab they're building in Arizona?Literally one generation behind for something like the next ten years.
>>522132594Probably such high demand comes from fact that 23 million island can't fulfill it without touching high tech stuff. It would be really funny if Taiwanese were capable of spending 400 billion on some tofu factory in Bumfuck, Nebraska.
>>522130867What? You don't want to die unconditionally for Island Israel?
>>522130594They want free protection forever? Lmao
>>522132594This is a mischaracterization unless you're specifically talking about chips.
>>522130594goodthose fucking free loaders trying to play upon the white man's guilt need to learn nothing in life is free
>>522132763There are no supply chain or workforce constraints. There are more high IQ working-age white men in this country than the entire population of Greater China, Taipei Province.What we do have is a basic sense of labor rights and real workforce utilization which is anatomically absent in bug brains. The suits simply cannot stand workers not being slaves.
>>522132186>ally>USLol, lmao even.
>>522133258There is a workforce issue in the USA on this front.Taiwan has a lot of publicly funded training programs and pipelines for the semiconductor industry. And these are well advertised to young Taiwanese. Despite that most people won't even last ten years in the industry before quitting to do something else. But thanks to these large well funded and operated pipelines they have a constant inflow of new bodies into the fabs with only minimal extra training required.Meanwhile US fabs have to do most of the training themselves.
>>522130594Trump's doing this to everybody, you ain't special.
>>522130594King Agent Orange would deport the workers like he did to South Korea. What a blunder. He is never going to recover from that.
>>522133404why won't they last? shitty job? if it's so specialized wouldn't they be well paid and fulfilled?
>>522133751People don't want to do the same shit over and over.
>>522130594Taiwan's deductible is lower and limit is higher than worst korea's. The US is writing and selling put options to these other countries. How do options get priced, how does that price change with the change in time, underlying price, risk-free rate, and generally perceived forward volatility? Your car insurance is a put option, it charges you a premium over time (theta), it has a strike price ($DEDUCTIBLE or more worth of insured losses), it has an expiration date (typically 6 months), and it has an implied volatility parameter (your past driving-related records, and your profile for their predictive model). The fact there's a coverage limit is equivalent to the policy being a vertical or "money" spread between $DEDUCTIBLE and ($DEDUCTIBLE+$LIMIT).Seriously, look up Black-Scholes-Merton. Options are *everywhere!*
>>522133557But he said H1B workers are necessary and he'll allow them.
>>522133751Its grueling and repetitive work in unpleasant conditions on the fab floor. The environmental conditions on the fab floor are optimised for production not humans. So its unpleasant to say the least. Some fabs mitigate this with sealed suits for workers. But those are unpleasant in their own way.You ever been in an environment where the ambient humidity is zero?
>>522130867Because you'll be speaking mandarin in 20 years if that happens.
>>522134848meds
>>522132186Taiwan is not an ally of the US. In fact, the US policy towards Taiwan has been to be ambiguous about whether it would defend it if it were invaded. America has economic and security interests in Taiwan, as there are defense systems that depend on chips fabricated in Taiwan.
>>522130594Better off joining China.Unless Taiwan loves trannys and faggots as much as the states does.
>>522136165>at least we're not speaking German
>>522131002Damn, how long has this been a problem for? We could have built our own taiwan by now.
>>522131002>Modern technology would endIn that case, China needs to invade yesterday.
>>522130867>Genuine question, why should I as an American care if China takes Taiwan?Don't listen to these retards.The purpose of Taiwan is to encircle China via the First Island Chain. Remove Taiwan and you break that encirclement. Which includes Korea, Japan, among other countries. Fear of blockade is why China is so obsessed with those islands in the South China Sea and building the Belt-and-Road initiative that would create a land network as an alternative trade route in the event of a US Naval Blockade(see WWIII).Taiwan's semi-conductors are just American and European tech that was placed in Taiwan to give them an income and keep them dependent(and thus allied) with us.
>>522130667>the shartpire demands ransom, so it can pay tribute to its chosen mastersfixed that for you
>>522130667Yep
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