What really baffles me is how Taiwans leadership can’t see the US endgame with the CHIPs act and the Chinese sanctions. The US government wants to steal TSMC by using subterfuge, sheer force and malice, while making Taiwan paying for it by refusing the revenue of selling advanced chips to China.
Not even TSMC should feel safe even if they successfully relocate themselves to the US.
Buccaneering has a long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries and as TikTok shows the US has no qualms in preaching free commerce, stable legal rules and all that bullshit to everyone else, while doing the most egregious mercantilist stuff without even an once of shame.
It’s the hypocrisy that bothers me personally. They force other countries to have maximally free trade with the world bank/IMF, then abandon those ideals the moment they aren’t convenient for the US. I think it’s reasonable for the US to act in their interest, but it should also be reasonable for every other nation to do the same, even if it means not having the same property laws as the US wants
