Quote from: ELS122 on 17 May, 2024 05:2330 years ago those chips were made in the US, instead of China... created jobs, boosted the US economy... The IC designs were later stolen by china and built in sweat shops, then sold to US companies at such low prices that the US companies were driven out of business. This is not the only market that china has overtaken this way. And when you hurt the market in any country, it's a national security threat for that country. Because less market dominance leads to a weaker country.China itself does very little in terms of RnD when it comes to IC's. Most of the designs are still mostly designed in the US, then outsourced to Taiwan, and sometimes those designs get stolen.Also since pretty much every single chip comes from China and Taiwan, if and when china invades taiwan they would have total market dominance. And could crash markets worldwide.So tariffs like this give back competitiveness to companies outside of china, giving incentive to build those factories. Reducing market dominance in china.And the reason why the market dominance of china is a problem is because they're hostile against the free world. No one is worried about Taiwan having such market dominance because Taiwan doesn't take over markets in other countries and repeat the dream of world domination.If people would just sit back and enjoy the success of someone else, then someone else without that mentality would take over everything. You can't just sit back and let monopolies grow foreverI sometimes watch CNN, etc., you worked in vain to retell.
The most amazing thing is that you don't notice the obvious contradictions. The Chinese stole, sold to American companies and American companies went bankrupt (apparently, different American companies are meant). Do you have any questions about those companies that bought cheap from the Chinese and they caused enormous damage to self country? Did the Chinese steal the machines and equipment too? Were they taken out by barges? At night? Has anyone seen it?
You're talking about market dominance and that's national security. And why don't you want to be dominated?The Chinese do not tell us about world domination. They just sell what we need and buy what they need. They do not impose anything, they do not dictate how we live and what is good.I'm sorry, but personally you and American politicians are talking about dominance.
It may be strange, but many don't like it. You have to understand - you don't want to be dominated.