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Monday, September 29, 2025

The Trumpf junta is pressuring Taiwan to rapidly move 50% of its chip production into the US if it wants ensured protection against a threatened Chinese invasion, slimy US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick disclosed. Lutnick noted that Taiwan makes about 95% of chips used in smartphones and cars, as well as in critical military defense technology. It's bad for the US, Lutnick said, that "95% of our chips are made 9,000 miles away," while China is not being "shy" about threats to "take" Taiwan. Were the US to lose access to Taiwan's supply chain, the US could be defenseless as its economy takes a hit, Lutnick whined, asking, "How are you going to get the chips here to make your drones, to make your equipment? If you can't make your own chips, how can you defend yourself, right?" the greedy oligarch argued. That's why his "objective" is to shift US chip production from 2% to 40%. To achieve that, Lutnick somehow plans to bring Taiwan's "whole supply chain" into the US.

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Such a monumental endeavor of moving chip production from Taiwan to the US would obviously take much longer than a single presidential term to accomplish. In 2023, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that the US was "somewhere between a decade and two decades away from supply chain independence," emphasizing that "it's not a really practical thing for a decade or two." After the idiotic ICE raids at a Hyundai plant in Georgia this summer, why would any non-white business from Asia want to expose their people to harm, humiliation, or arbitrary detention in the racist US which has a deplorable healthcare system and rampant firearm violence?
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I think that the Chinese have about persuaded themselves that the dictator will never go to war with them to protect Taiwan.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-29 03:50 PM | Reply

#1: Vladimir Putin would not approve of the US fighting China and Xi Jinping knows this. Beijing and Moscow know to ignore whatever claptrap Dummkopf Trumpf bleats, but they do pay attention to what he does. The UK, Japan, ROK, Australia, and NZ are a different matter: www.japantimes.co.jp

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-29 05:22 PM | Reply

Sop

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-29 10:05 PM | Reply

Y'all need to stop pretending you care about Taiwan unless you're willing to call it by its official name. Taiwan IS part of China, just not the PRC.

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-30 05:47 PM | Reply

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