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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by perardi on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:34AM (#26635049)
Taiwan is currently our 10th largest goods trading partner with $85.5 billion in total (two-way) goods trade during 2019. Goods exports totaled $31.3 billion; goods imports totaled $54.3 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $23.0 billion in 2019.

Taiwan was the United States' 13th largest goods export market in 2019.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china/taiwan

If you think the US doesn’t care about a Top 10 trade partner, and in particular the trade partner that houses TSMC, well have I got news for you. Do we care enough to go into a full-on firefight immediately? I don’t know. But we care enough that it would be a massive diplomatic row, and we’d almost certainly have a naval peacocking as a show of force. And nobody wants that right by South Korea, India, and Japan.

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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by ekianjo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:34PM (#26643233)
> and in particular the trade partner that houses TSMC,

Why do you think the US is working with TSMC to build plants in the US and intel is building more facilities as well? It's fairly obvious nobody has any confidence in the long run that Taiwan will remain independent.

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