Wednesday, July 7th 2021
TSMC Under U.S. Pressure Over China Fab Expansion
TSMC is under pressure from the U.S. to reconsider its plans to expand its facilities in mainland China, sources close to the matter told DigiTimes. TSMC currently operates a fab near Shanghai, and one in Nanjing, which it had originally planned to expand, meeting resistance from the U.S. It is not known if this is government (diplomatic) pressure or by U.S. based customers of TSMC., but is likely a combination of the two. The same forces were possibly behind getting TSMC to invest north of $3.5 billion toward a facility in Arizona with six more "Gigafabs" being planned in the southwestern state. U.S. hand-holding in TSMC's policymaking could be part of a strategy to deny cutting-edge silicon fabrication technology to China (PRC), and to help TSMC expand its manufacturing in safer regions as the security situation across the Taiwan strait continues to deteriorate. TSMC, specifically western tech companies' dependence on it, makes it a soft target on the island, and a bargaining chip to deter western military intervention.
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77 Comments on TSMC Under U.S. Pressure Over China Fab Expansion
So was many other Taiwanese. They fled because they didn't like the fact that the communists took over. Or their parents did at the very least.
Where you were born ≠ who you are.
Besides, by your logic, a large chunk of the people in Taiwan are chinese, as the KMT brought over more than a million people when they seized power of Taiwan.
If China decided one day to take over the production sites on their land it would impact everyone.
The same way there are Chinese people that arent from China. There are Chinese people from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia etc etc the list goes on.
Saying "Hes Chinese" doesnt really mean anything. So what if hes Chinese?
Much like white people are all from the US in many asian countries. You have no idea how fed up I am with being called american and that people assume I teach english for a living. Or you know, people just pointing at staring at times and calling me an outsider.
The owner is from china the same way Xi Jinping is from china - they were both outcasts. Being the president doesn't change anything.
Thas is on the same level of propaganda with the stories about Soviets invading the West yet go figure it's always the West that has expanded towards the East !
I don't know where you're from, but it would be the same as saying you're from the same country as a really horrible person from the same country. I don't think you would appreciate that.
You clearly have no idea about the history of china and Taiwan, so please stop making stupid assumptions.
Emperor Xi is set on concurring Taiwan, one way or another and Taiwan is having none of it.
Just look at what the PRC has done with Hong Kong over the past few years. I no longer dare to travel there (if I could travel), as it's way too big of a risk to be arrested for no reason but the fact that I live in Taiwan.
It's not like the anti soviet propaganda this time around, it's a serious possibility and it's also a serious possibility of war in this part of the world. It really comes down to what mood Xi is in. That is not a rational person that can be reasoned with.
So it doesn't matter. Plus as others said he wasn't born in the PRC aka modern China, though he might have sympathy to it or not or whatever.
I guess you don't have the first idea how the PRC government acts.
Look what happened to Jack Ma, he got too powerful and too rich, so the PRC government smacked him around and more or less killed off his latest venture.
They kidnap people in other countries and drag them to china and have them confess crimes they didn't commit and the crimes are treason against the PRC. Look up Gui Minhai.
They shut down publications in Hong Kong and arrest their staff, as they claim they are spreading foreign propaganda. They arrest people in Hong Kong for being terrorists, because they laid flower on a place where someone committed suicide, admittedly after attacking and killing a police officer out of desperation.
The PRC doesn't need reasons and if you think they do, then you're sorely mistaken.
But hey now China having a say on Taiwan ( same enthnicity ) which has been related to mainland China since 1683 ... now that is stange , that is dictatorship eh :laugh: .
As for the US government, that bit is very complicated, as most of these things are, but let's say it involves selling arms to Taiwan.