One: Isn't TSMC having issues making chips in Taiwan because of the drought that's been happening there? If water can be such an issue, why are they building this plant in Arizona, the driest state in the US?
Two: By the time this plant goes online, 5nm is going to be old news. Why aren't they aiming for 3nm or better?
Let's be real ... the real threat to TSMC isn't water - it's Communist China and a potential for mainland China to invade Taiwan.
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Uncle Joe is too smart to provoke another civil war we can't win.
I'm thinking, haven't heard anyone use "Uncle Joe" in relation to President Joe Biden; excepting you, but of course, "Uncle Joe" Stalin was a thing back before I was born.
As for Taiwan, I do hope that the U.S. and our allies stand by Democracy in Taiwan, even at the cost of U.S. lives. Taiwan doesn't belong to the People's Republic of China, no matter what China states. After what happened to Hong Kong, and Tibet, Taiwan deserves to survive as a vibrant democracy.
Taiwan is no more separate from China than Texas is from the U.S. Both appear to want to be, but neither is.
Yeh, Trump incited insurrection in Hong Kong and Taiwan just as he did here -- but in all cases sanity prevailed.
Actually, Taiwan is an island with no land borders with the People's Republic of China, and you would be lying that Trump incited the "insurrection" in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has described protests in Hong Kong as “riots” that China will have to deal with itself, signaling a hands-off approach to the biggest political crisis gripping the former British colony in decades.
"Millions have taken to the streets in the past three months to protest against an extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party."
The protests are the most serious political crisis in Hong Kong since it returned to China 22 years ago. They also pose the greatest popular challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012 and come as Xi already grapples with a Sino-U.S. trade war and tensions in the South China Sea.
Some activists have waved the U.S. flag during the demonstrations, while Beijing has accused U.S. officials of being behind the violent chaos and warned against interference.
Trump was asked by reporters before leaving for a campaign event in Ohio on Thursday whether he was concerned by media reports that China might intervene in Hong Kong and said the city had experienced “riots for a long period of time”.
“Hong Kong is a part of China, they’ll have to deal with that themselves,” he said.
Trump’s labeling of the demonstrations as riots is certain to rile activists in the Asian financial center who have called on the city’s government to drop the use of the word to describe the protests.
It was the Extradition Bill that was behind the protests, and it wasn't until about three months later that President Donald Trump actually reversed himself on Hong Kong;
For the record, neither President Joe Biden, nor Congress, appear to be interested in reversing the policies that President Donald Trump initially placed on the PRC.
Defending Trump, his insurrectionists, and smear campaign against China... Got it.
To be fair, Democrats incited Hong Kong riots. Trump is not that fanciful about democracy. Pelosi called Hong Kong protests a beautiful sight of democracy.
True! Or, while they may not have incited them, they have other similar rebellions - which triggered Russian retaliation -- which ultimately got us trumped. And, in the end, as you pointed out, they certainly cheered this one on.
The weird part is: everybody on both sides of the aisle recognize that China is quickly overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading economy and the leading influence in the world. But what they don't realize is that these silly attacks only serve to weaken us and strengthen China's resolve to never be colonized or pushed around by the west again.
A great example is central America: we need their help and cooperation to stem the rising tide of immigrants entering this country. But, in their time of need, they had to turn to China for help with vaccines while we refused them. Waving the flag and cheering democracy isn't going to get us very far on the world's stage.
I left out one important fact. The US embassy in Hong Kong is very supportive to the protesters.
I wonder how the U.S. would react if China started supporting the Proud Boys and/or Antifa?
Pompeo closed out Chinese embassy in Houston alleging activities. China retaliated by closing US embassy in Chengdu.
One: Isn't TSMC having issues making chips in Taiwan because of the drought that's been happening there? If water can be such an issue, why are they building this plant in Arizona, the driest state in the US?
Two: By the time this plant goes online, 5nm is going to be old news. Why aren't they aiming for 3nm or better?
Let's be real ... the real threat to TSMC isn't water - it's Communist China and a potential for mainland China to invade Taiwan.
...
Uncle Joe is too smart to provoke another civil war we can't win.
I'm thinking, haven't heard anyone use "Uncle Joe" in relation to President Joe Biden; excepting you, but of course, "Uncle Joe" Stalin was a thing back before I was born.
As for Taiwan, I do hope that the U.S. and our allies stand by Democracy in Taiwan, even at the cost of U.S. lives. Taiwan doesn't belong to the People's Republic of China, no matter what China states. After what happened to Hong Kong, and Tibet, Taiwan deserves to survive as a vibrant democracy.
Taiwan is no more separate from China than Texas is from the U.S. Both appear to want to be, but neither is.
Yeh, Trump incited insurrection in Hong Kong and Taiwan just as he did here -- but in all cases sanity prevailed.
Actually, Taiwan is an island with no land borders with the People's Republic of China, and you would be lying that Trump incited the "insurrection" in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has described protests in Hong Kong as “riots” that China will have to deal with itself, signaling a hands-off approach to the biggest political crisis gripping the former British colony in decades.
"Millions have taken to the streets in the past three months to protest against an extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party."
The protests are the most serious political crisis in Hong Kong since it returned to China 22 years ago. They also pose the greatest popular challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012 and come as Xi already grapples with a Sino-U.S. trade war and tensions in the South China Sea.
Some activists have waved the U.S. flag during the demonstrations, while Beijing has accused U.S. officials of being behind the violent chaos and warned against interference.
Trump was asked by reporters before leaving for a campaign event in Ohio on Thursday whether he was concerned by media reports that China might intervene in Hong Kong and said the city had experienced “riots for a long period of time”.
“Hong Kong is a part of China, they’ll have to deal with that themselves,” he said.
Trump’s labeling of the demonstrations as riots is certain to rile activists in the Asian financial center who have called on the city’s government to drop the use of the word to describe the protests.
It was the Extradition Bill that was behind the protests, and it wasn't until about three months later that President Donald Trump actually reversed himself on Hong Kong;
For the record, neither President Joe Biden, nor Congress, appear to be interested in reversing the policies that President Donald Trump initially placed on the PRC.
Defending Trump, his insurrectionists, and smear campaign against China... Got it.
To be fair, Democrats incited Hong Kong riots. Trump is not that fanciful about democracy. Pelosi called Hong Kong protests a beautiful sight of democracy.
True! Or, while they may not have incited them, they have other similar rebellions - which triggered Russian retaliation -- which ultimately got us trumped. And, in the end, as you pointed out, they certainly cheered this one on.
The weird part is: everybody on both sides of the aisle recognize that China is quickly overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading economy and the leading influence in the world. But what they don't realize is that these silly attacks only serve to weaken us and strengthen China's resolve to never be colonized or pushed around by the west again.
A great example is central America: we need their help and cooperation to stem the rising tide of immigrants entering this country. But, in their time of need, they had to turn to China for help with vaccines while we refused them. Waving the flag and cheering democracy isn't going to get us very far on the world's stage.
China isn't going to overtake the U.S. until the end of the decade, at best, and China is also facing a serious aging problem, which is why they allowed, as of yesterday, up to three children per family. Still, the fact is that China's standard of living will almost certainly never approach that of the U.S., and China will never get rich, before they get old, as Japan has.
As for influence, try as China might, they are not getting positive results from their Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, and Western nations have begun to turn away from China. If anything, China's influence operations, along with initiatives of the current U.S. Administration, appears to be coalescing around growing alliances to contain China.
As for immigration, that is precisely why the U.S. has not yet had an aging problem of its own, even as the U.S. birth replacement rate has slowed. The U.S. still allows immigration.
As for the Democrats "inciting" Hong Kong protests, that's just false. Both parties, and people from around the world supported Hong Kong.
That pretty well sums up the rhetoric from the China haters club of America. It has just enough truth in it to sound credible for those looking for reasons to justify their hate.
"The U.K. government said China is in “a state of ongoing non-compliance” with the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a treaty signed by the two countries that guarantees Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms after the city was handed back to Beijing in 1997.
“Beijing’s decision to impose radical changes to restrict participation in Hong Kong’s electoral system constitutes a further clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement on Saturday.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, which was signed in 1984, stipulates that Hong Kong would retain its high degree of autonomy, rights and freedoms for 50 years after the handover in 1997.
Raab also said on Saturday that the Chinese authorities’ continued action of ongoing non-compliance was a “demonstration of the growing gulf between Beijing’s promises and its actions.”
The U.S. will remain wealthier than China — measured by GDP per capita — for at least the next 50 years, said Simon Baptist, global chief economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
His comment followed Joe Biden’s first official press conference since taking office, during which the U.S. president said he will not let China become “the leading country” globally.
The latest available data by the International Monetary Fund showed China’s GDP per capita was forecast to be $10,582.10 last year, roughly six times smaller than $63,051.40 in the U.S.
All of that analysis was made prior to the U.S. reducing trade with China, and other Western countries appear to be following, driven for the most part by China's human rights violations.
China may not surpass the U.S. even in 2032, as China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy backfires.
One: Isn't TSMC having issues making chips in Taiwan because of the drought that's been happening there? If water can be such an issue, why are they building this plant in Arizona, the driest state in the US?
Two: By the time this plant goes online, 5nm is going to be old news. Why aren't they aiming for 3nm or better?
Let's be real ... the real threat to TSMC isn't water - it's Communist China and a potential for mainland China to invade Taiwan.
...
Uncle Joe is too smart to provoke another civil war we can't win.
I'm thinking, haven't heard anyone use "Uncle Joe" in relation to President Joe Biden; excepting you, but of course, "Uncle Joe" Stalin was a thing back before I was born.
As for Taiwan, I do hope that the U.S. and our allies stand by Democracy in Taiwan, even at the cost of U.S. lives. Taiwan doesn't belong to the People's Republic of China, no matter what China states. After what happened to Hong Kong, and Tibet, Taiwan deserves to survive as a vibrant democracy.
Taiwan is no more separate from China than Texas is from the U.S. Both appear to want to be, but neither is.
Yeh, Trump incited insurrection in Hong Kong and Taiwan just as he did here -- but in all cases sanity prevailed.
Actually, Taiwan is an island with no land borders with the People's Republic of China, and you would be lying that Trump incited the "insurrection" in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has described protests in Hong Kong as “riots” that China will have to deal with itself, signaling a hands-off approach to the biggest political crisis gripping the former British colony in decades.
"Millions have taken to the streets in the past three months to protest against an extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party."
The protests are the most serious political crisis in Hong Kong since it returned to China 22 years ago. They also pose the greatest popular challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012 and come as Xi already grapples with a Sino-U.S. trade war and tensions in the South China Sea.
Some activists have waved the U.S. flag during the demonstrations, while Beijing has accused U.S. officials of being behind the violent chaos and warned against interference.
Trump was asked by reporters before leaving for a campaign event in Ohio on Thursday whether he was concerned by media reports that China might intervene in Hong Kong and said the city had experienced “riots for a long period of time”.
“Hong Kong is a part of China, they’ll have to deal with that themselves,” he said.
Trump’s labeling of the demonstrations as riots is certain to rile activists in the Asian financial center who have called on the city’s government to drop the use of the word to describe the protests.
It was the Extradition Bill that was behind the protests, and it wasn't until about three months later that President Donald Trump actually reversed himself on Hong Kong;
For the record, neither President Joe Biden, nor Congress, appear to be interested in reversing the policies that President Donald Trump initially placed on the PRC.
Defending Trump, his insurrectionists, and smear campaign against China... Got it.
To be fair, Democrats incited Hong Kong riots. Trump is not that fanciful about democracy. Pelosi called Hong Kong protests a beautiful sight of democracy.
True! Or, while they may not have incited them, they have other similar rebellions - which triggered Russian retaliation -- which ultimately got us trumped. And, in the end, as you pointed out, they certainly cheered this one on.
The weird part is: everybody on both sides of the aisle recognize that China is quickly overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading economy and the leading influence in the world. But what they don't realize is that these silly attacks only serve to weaken us and strengthen China's resolve to never be colonized or pushed around by the west again.
A great example is central America: we need their help and cooperation to stem the rising tide of immigrants entering this country. But, in their time of need, they had to turn to China for help with vaccines while we refused them. Waving the flag and cheering democracy isn't going to get us very far on the world's stage.
China isn't going to overtake the U.S. until the end of the decade, at best, and China is also facing a serious aging problem, which is why they allowed, as of yesterday, up to three children per family. Still, the fact is that China's standard of living will almost certainly never approach that of the U.S., and China will never get rich, before they get old, as Japan has.
As for influence, try as China might, they are not getting positive results from their Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, and Western nations have begun to turn away from China. If anything, China's influence operations, along with initiatives of the current U.S. Administration, appears to be coalescing around growing alliances to contain China.
As for immigration, that is precisely why the U.S. has not yet had an aging problem of its own, even as the U.S. birth replacement rate has slowed. The U.S. still allows immigration.
As for the Democrats "inciting" Hong Kong protests, that's just false. Both parties, and people from around the world supported Hong Kong.
That pretty well sums up the rhetoric from the China haters club of America. It has just enough truth in it to sound credible for those looking for reasons to justify their hate.
"The U.K. government said China is in “a state of ongoing non-compliance” with the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a treaty signed by the two countries that guarantees Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms after the city was handed back to Beijing in 1997.
“Beijing’s decision to impose radical changes to restrict participation in Hong Kong’s electoral system constitutes a further clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement on Saturday.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, which was signed in 1984, stipulates that Hong Kong would retain its high degree of autonomy, rights and freedoms for 50 years after the handover in 1997.
Raab also said on Saturday that the Chinese authorities’ continued action of ongoing non-compliance was a “demonstration of the growing gulf between Beijing’s promises and its actions.”
The U.S. will remain wealthier than China — measured by GDP per capita — for at least the next 50 years, said Simon Baptist, global chief economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
His comment followed Joe Biden’s first official press conference since taking office, during which the U.S. president said he will not let China become “the leading country” globally.
The latest available data by the International Monetary Fund showed China’s GDP per capita was forecast to be $10,582.10 last year, roughly six times smaller than $63,051.40 in the U.S.
All of that analysis was made prior to the U.S. reducing trade with China, and other Western countries appear to be following, driven for the most part by China's human rights violations.
China may not surpass the U.S. even in 2032, as China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy backfires.
The UK? They're just sore losers..... Pouting and throwing hissy fits.
For rest.... Selective rubbish that ignores the fact that China is on the rise while the U.S. is running on borrowed time as well as borrowed (and printed) money.
LOL!
You are completely out of support for any of your arguments. Now might be the time to pack it in, and lick your wounds.
Oh, and maybe actually gain an understanding of economics.
Ahh! See, that's the difference: I base my opinions on fact rather than propaganda and I do understand economics -- the real kind rather than the voodoo kind.
So, you would agree with me that the U.S. will continue to be much wealthier than China, even if China's GDP surpasses the U.S. sometime in the 2030's? That's certainly what the economic data shows.
Also, Hong Kong island was ceded as part of a treaty, and later the New Territories were leased. The treaty and the lease may have been unfair to the Chinese, but there was no "stealing", everything was legal.
The UK also was not forced to return anything, they were contractually obliged to give up the New Terriroties by the terms of the lease, no one forced anything, and they voluntarily gave up Hong Kong island because it was impractical to keep control of it while giving up the rest of the peninsula.
Given that all agreements made by the UK were with the Qing Dynasty, not the PRC, I think the forbearance of the British was pretty remarkable. The price of that amenability was the Joint Declaration on One Country Two Systems, which the PRC are now violating in their actions in Hong Kong. So the British fulfilled their contracts, while the Chinese break theirs. And you accuse the British of stealing because your eyes are clouded.
Just like with Taiwan your knowledge of history seems to be very lacking.
Also, Hong Kong island was ceded as part of a treaty, and later the New Territories were leased. The treaty and the lease may have been unfair to the Chinese, but there was no "stealing", everything was legal.
The UK also was not forced to return anything, they were contractually obliged to give up the New Terriroties by the terms of the lease, no one forced anything, and they voluntarily gave up Hong Kong island because it was impractical to keep control of it while giving up the rest of the peninsula.
Given that all agreements made by the UK were with the Qing Dynasty, not the PRC, I think the forbearance of the British was pretty remarkable. The price of that amenability was the Joint Declaration on One Country Two Systems, which the PRC are now violating in their actions in Hong Kong. So the British fulfilled their contracts, while the Chinese break theirs. And you accuse the British of stealing because your eyes are clouded.
Just like with Taiwan your knowledge of history seems to be very lacking.
Yeh, the same people legally donated Pennsylvania to the Penn family....
LOL... So now you're defending the conquering and colonization of parts of China by the British (as well as Dutch & Germans)/.Amazing! Simply amazing.
Meanwhile China is making it very clear that they will never let that happen to them again. But some idiots still seem to think they are subservient to the west -- and they just can't understand why China won't go along with them.
It's that kind of egocentric but naive & misguided attitude that will push China into taking Taiwan back by force. And then you'll act all butt hurt. And, of course, blame it on China.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2021/03/14/uk-says-china-breached-hong-kong-handover-treaty-for-third-time/?sh=4bf46c472cb4
"The U.K. government said China is in “a state of ongoing non-compliance” with the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a treaty signed by the two countries that guarantees Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms after the city was handed back to Beijing in 1997.
“Beijing’s decision to impose radical changes to restrict participation in Hong Kong’s electoral system constitutes a further clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement on Saturday.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, which was signed in 1984, stipulates that Hong Kong would retain its high degree of autonomy, rights and freedoms for 50 years after the handover in 1997.
Raab also said on Saturday that the Chinese authorities’ continued action of ongoing non-compliance was a “demonstration of the growing gulf between Beijing’s promises and its actions.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/us-will-remain-richer-than-china-for-the-next-50-years-or-more-eiu.html
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All of that analysis was made prior to the U.S. reducing trade with China, and other Western countries appear to be following, driven for the most part by China's human rights violations.
China may not surpass the U.S. even in 2032, as China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy backfires.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/hong-kong-finds-new-ways-to-remember-tiananmen-square-amid-vigil-ban
Hong Kong persists, in spite of PRC attempts to shut down dissent.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1400812093276889089
The UK also was not forced to return anything, they were contractually obliged to give up the New Terriroties by the terms of the lease, no one forced anything, and they voluntarily gave up Hong Kong island because it was impractical to keep control of it while giving up the rest of the peninsula.
Given that all agreements made by the UK were with the Qing Dynasty, not the PRC, I think the forbearance of the British was pretty remarkable. The price of that amenability was the Joint Declaration on One Country Two Systems, which the PRC are now violating in their actions in Hong Kong. So the British fulfilled their contracts, while the Chinese break theirs. And you accuse the British of stealing because your eyes are clouded.
Just like with Taiwan your knowledge of history seems to be very lacking.