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Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by igalic on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:56PM (#27442612)
It has nothing to do with the pandemic, but the strategy and investment in reducing reliance on external (to the EU, and Germany in particular) suppliers is not luck.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by ineedasername on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:59PM (#27443385)
Absolutely. Even with the US, as much as Europe & the US are more aligned than not on geopolitical issues, the last 4-5 years have shown that is not guaranteed to continue indefinitely.

And in terms of the fragility of the world's industrial and economic engines, perhaps this is a realization that globalization has gone too far and the pendulum needs to swing more towards slightly higher self-sufficiency. Not even for some philosophy of anti-globalism, but merely because things are too brittle as they are now.