Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by holy_city on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:19PM
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>while subsidizing Intel to the tune of billions
According to your source the US government is subsidizing Intel to the tune of $228,154,638, $141mm of which are loans. The lions share of those billions are incentives from Oregon and New Mexico to keep Intel manufacturing in their states.
>The absurdity of it all is immense, yet still seems to elude most US Americans.
What seems absurd in my opinion, is the idea it's a bad idea to prevent an unfriendly foreign power from gaining more access to your communication infrastructure. That's not hypocritical, it's pragmatic national security policy...
No, it's stealing "allies" IP and giving it to US businesses [0] while subsidizing Intel to the tune of billions [1].
Still, nobody writes headlines along the lines of "State-sponsored Intel processors come with ME backdoor for government spying." instead we get, super trustworthy, articles how the NSA totally helped with disabling the backdoor [2], because a sucker is born every minute.
The absurdity of it all is immense, yet still seems to elude most US Americans.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...
[1] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/intel
[2] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-no...