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bsdnf

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On the topic of Japan looks like TSMC is planning to produce some chips in Japan.

TSMC Japan plan for advanced chips seen as hedge against pressure from US, China​

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At this point i feel like Taiwan is becoming more and more irrelevant because of the fact that TSMC is allowed to build manufacturing elsewhere, this also wasn't part of any trade deal.

i hope the opposition parties will do a little bit more then sit around and do nothing.
The problem with TSMC Japan is that Japan's semiconductor industry isn't just a manufacturing process issue; its IC design and application capabilities have fallen behind over the past few decades.

How many years has it been since we've heard of Japanese-designed CPUs and SoCs? They've always been able to place orders with TSMC in Taiwan, but what chips have they actually produced?
 

supersnoop

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For those who been to china lately you will see loads of Walmart's, KFCs etc there.

That got me thinking about countries like India that seethe the west invested in China over India. If only they opened up earlier then the west would invest in them like China.

That's not how it works. Why would KFC and other consumer goods companies invest the same amount in a country that doesn't eat meat? Why would sports companies like Nike want to invest a large qmount in a place that cares even less about playing sports than China? Like just by design there's way less market potential alone for the CEOs to see. I havent even mentioned the actual spending power.

For all the whining about communism or whatever, when it comes to products, western companies couldn't find a better place than China. There aren't many limits provided it isn't political. So instead of blaming how companies china bow to China, maybe you should think how to make it more attractive for them to care about you?
A good question, did India aggressively pursue foreign investment like China did?

We have to remember, China did not simply hang up a sign and said "Open for business, we have a billion people". The billion people were poor as dirt (poorer than North Korea, poorer than even Haiti). It was not terribly attractive, and companies were not sure how they would make money. Exports were not an obvious choice as equipment was often obsolete and manufacturing not as productive as other locales. Upgrading equipment became a Chicken and Egg situation because of the uncertainty of the above. It was too early then to talk about spending power.

The 80's were actually a bit of a learning experience, there were a lot of false starts. Although popularly portrayed by Western media as a political movement, the protests in throughout Beijing (not just within Tiananmen) were actually largely a response to the double digit inflation and hardship to the people as a result of economic reforms.

It was actually within this backdrop that KFC opened (1987), so it was not always smooth sailing. There was simply enormous scale strategizing that is simply not always appreciated enough. There was also some luck too. Taiwan and Korea were coming off their own economic miracles and it was very natural for them (especially Taiwanese) to invest some of these gains into China (especially helpful was access to cheaper industrial equipment from these places relative to Japan/Germany).

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It is a bit absurd to say China doesn't care about playing sports. Li Ning (the person)'s gold medals made him a national hero and subsequently allowed him to launch his sportswear brand.
 

bebops

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US demands that Iran ceases relation with China.


Basically US wants China to buy oil with US dollar. Venezuela oil business is still open to China.

If China doesn't want to use US dollars, they can always rely on a few other countries (Saudi or Russia) that use yuan.

The worst case is China could pump oil from their land. I heard it is enough to last 30+ years. By then oil consumption is no longer needed due to everything using renewal energy.
 

jiajia99

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US demands that Iran ceases relation with China.

Yeah these Americans are still as childish and arrogant as ever. Still the only way to wake these pedophile pieces of dog shit up is to seriously go after ever single US asset in the region, preferably US military personal and simply neutralise them in a lethal manner and then send their remains back to Washington in large enough numbers to break the minds of the U.S. government to get them to at least understand that maybe, they have to stop with this idiot demands and maybe consider that they need to actually treat other nations with respect that they are owed. The Epstein files have more or less proven that the USA doesn’t deserve as a whole to be treated with respect but with thinly veiled contempt until they actually fix that broken nation of theirs and that won’t happen unless their people do a French Revolution on its elite class cause really the entire elite class and their brain dead supporters are quite frankly the biggest problem right now
 
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A potato

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I didn't understand anything from that video. White Supremacy terror attack in indonesia a fully asian country? What is this about?
IDK either but we do know that White supramacy seems to be oursorced to SEA and India. After RadioGenoa (A white supramcist account on twitter) is form Cambodia and Geert Wilders (A Dutch Far Right polititian) is half indonesian.
 

jiajia99

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US demands that Iran ceases relation with China.

Yeah these Americans are still as childish and arrogant as ever. Still the only way to wake these pedophile pieces of dog shit up is to seriously go after ever single US asset in the region, preferably US military personal and simply neutralise them in a lethal manner and then send their remains back to Washington in large enough numbers to break the minds of the U.S. government to get them to at least understand that maybe, they have to stop with this idiot demands and maybe consider that they need to actually treat other nations with respect that they are owed. The Epstein files have more or less proven that the USA doesn’t deserve as a whole to be treated with respect but with thinly veiled contempt until they actually fix that broken nation of there and that won’t happen unless their people do a French Revolution on its elite
 
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