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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by dilyevsky on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:49PM (#43259138)
China is basically circled on all sides by US-allied forces and with Taiwan being one it really limits their force projection capabilities in the Pacific. That's the actual pragmatic reason, not some ideology thing, imho
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by dralley on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:56PM (#43259225)
Everyone wants to think there is always a "pragmatic" reason. It helps to think that there is always a rational cause for everything, every decision that is made. And we map cynicism about our own politicians onto everyone else, thinking that surely they don't mean what they say either.

There's not always a rational reason. Ideology is a real thing. World leaders do not always act in "rational" ways, nor are they always playing 4D chess.

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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by RealityVoid on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @05:28PM (#43260494)
Bingo! Trying to assign reason to emotional decisions is like reading tea leaves. And we're all subject to these emotional forces.
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by dilyevsky on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:49AM (#43263323)
On the contrary - i don't see the value in playing couch psychoanalyst when there's a perfectly legit realpolitik reason available.
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