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The US takes back its Chips industry from Taiwan, China +1, Japan and South Korea 1950-1990 to 2025-2040
04/16/2025
By 2025 bad economic theory was discarded, a clear path for the CHIPS manufacturing industry in the US is set forth and actions taken to do this. Morris Chang founder of TSMC got 20 years of experience at Stanford, MIT, Texas Instruments, everything he learned he learned in the US till Taiwan invited him to set up plants in that country in 1985. Bad economic theory that let this happen is being discarded in 2025. US decision by US Congress and the White House, the whole Nation, is to make Chips in America in 2025. Over 2025-2040 the entire Chips industry will be in the US similar to 1950-1990.
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Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions
NYTimes.com 04/16/2025
Tariffs fallout: The US will struggle to take on Asia over chipsBBC News 04/16/2025
The danger to the US, European Union and India of concentration of chip production in Taiwan
06/20/2022
Concentrating 92% of chip production that powers cell phones, laptops, computers in Taiwan makes no sense. Five fabs are concentrated in just 1 Science Park- Hsinshu Science Park in Taiwan. A missile attack could take out half of the world's chip supply. After Ukraine the US, EU and India, South Korea, Japan need to take this seriously. Action taken now will bring results over 3-5 years. The Free World depends on creation of new supply chains using manufacturing in the US, EU, India and Japan.
Linked Articles
Opinion | China Is Losing Its Bet on Chips
WSJ 06/20/2022
Opinion | Semiconductor Dependency Imperils American SecurityWSJ 06/20/2022
De Klerk, Desmond Tutu, Mandela and the New South Africa
12/27/2021
South Africa's amazing transformation into a racially harmonious society, with people of black, white, Afrikaans, English Afrikaans, Indian, building a new South Africa owes a lot to the leadership, humility, and vision of De Klerk and Desmond Tutu, as well as Nelson Mandela. South Africa's experience offers a new sense of hope that no matter what the difficulties involved one can pull together people of different backgrounds and cultures into a united country. It is in keeping with the best ideals of Britain and of India's Mohandas Gandhi who started his work in Cape Town, South Africa.
Linked Articles
Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Who Helped End Apartheid, Dies
WSJ 12/26/2021
Legacy of FW de Klerk, South Africa's last leader under apartheid | DW | 11.11.2021DW.COM 11/11/2021
Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?
11/02/2021
This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.
Linked Articles
WSJ 07/03/2007
Barred From Malaysia, but Still Connecting With Critical JabsNew York Times 08/16/2013
India's effort in mobile manufacturing with PLI incentives, and in 5G
12/16/2020
Unprecedented effort in India in 5G by 2021-2022 and in mobile manufacturing under PLI incentives by 2025.
Linked Articles
‘India will prove cynics wrong...’: Mukesh Ambani on economy, Jio 5G, vaccine
Hindustan Times 12/08/2020
‘Pushing India to surpass China in mobile manufacturing’: Ravi Shankar PrasadHindustan Times 12/16/2020
India's growth predicted at an "unprecedented acceleration" in 2021-2022 after the pandemic
12/08/2020
India's unprecedented growth in mobile manufacturing planned for 2025 under PLI incentives and in 5G technologies by 2021-2022.
Linked Articles
HTLS 2020: India’s new era will be defined by the idea of decentralization
Hindustan Times 12/08/2020
‘India will prove cynics wrong...’: Mukesh Ambani on economy, Jio 5G, vaccineHindustan Times 12/08/2020
What Tesla after the pandemic's first wave has in common with VW in 2015 at the time of the diesel emissions crisis
09/10/2020
CEO pay packages shooting into space just before and just after the first wave of the pandemic.
Linked Articles
Elon Musk’s Payday Could Cost Tesla Shareholders Dearly
WSJ 09/10/2020
Volkswagen’s Ex-CEO Is Ordered to Stand Trial Over Emissions ScandalWSJ 09/09/2020
How the Coronavirus test in the U.S. got delayed for 3 crucial weeks in February letting the pandemic spread quickly
08/21/2020
Three lost weeks in February starting February 9 when the FDA realized its third component of the test to test mutated virus had failed in use by labs but continued to persist in doing this on its own. Private labs of well known medical companies and university teaching hospitals were ready to develop and use their own tests with lightning speed and yet the FDA required its approval stalling that effort. FDA and HHS failure in the crisis led to the quick spread of the virus in Feb- March making any use of test and contact trace for containment ineffective. a crucial window of time was lost!
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FDA’s Authority to Regulate Lab Tests Is Curtailed
WSJ 08/21/2020
What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost WeeksWSJ 08/18/2020
How Germany made "total" contact tracing the mission in early March, and how it limited spread of coronavirus
05/26/2020
Linked Articles
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
While U.S. struggles to roll out coronavirus contact tracing, Germany has been doing it from the startWashington Post 05/25/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus - from South Korea and Taiwan
04/12/2020
Linked Articles
East vs. West: Coronavirus Fight Tests Divergent Strategies
WSJ 03/13/2020
How has Taiwan kept its coronavirus infection rate so low? | DW | 11.03.2020DW.COM 03/11/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus spread- public gatherings at stadiums spread contagion quickly like wildfire
04/12/2020
Linked Articles
The Soccer Match that Kicked Off Italy’s Coronavirus Disaster
WSJ 04/01/2020
Coronavirus: Tracking the global outbreakBBC News 04/07/2020
Diplomacy as the realistic option in the Korean peninsula- the situation in 2017 with new intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities of North Korea
07/05/2017
Linked Articles
Five Blunt Truths About the North Korea Crisis
07/05/2017
What Can Trump Do About North Korea? His Options Are Few and RiskyThe New York Times 07/04/2017
Chancellor Merkel and the events at Budapest Kelesti Station in early Sept 2015 that gave the German government only a few hours to act
09/21/2016
Linked Articles
What happens next | ZEIT ONLINE
ZEIT ONLINE 08/30/2016
Merkel Accepts Responsibility for Party’s Losses in Berlin ElectionThe New York Times 09/19/2016
The indictment of Donald Trump for hush payments to a porn actress
04/01/2023
The indictment by a grand jury of Donald Trump in March 2023, with other investigations underway in other places.
Linked Articles
How Alvin Bragg Resurrected the Case Against Donald Trump
NYTimes.com 04/01/2023
Donald Trump Indictment Sets Historical MarkerWSJ 03/31/2023
Ukraine Railways - stories of courage under fire as Ukraine Rail employees take millions of refugees out of danger
04/15/2022
This The Guardian picture essay and DW.com video tell the story of how millions of refugees are daily making their way on Ukraine Railways from the east and south to safety in the west and in Poland.
Linked Articles
The people who keep the refugee trains running out of Ukraine – photo essay
The Guardian 03/31/2022
Courageous rail workers keep Ukraine running amid war | DW | 14.04.2022DW.COM 04/14/2022
Stephanie Nolan on variants and the struggle with Covid in Africa- reports from frontlines South Africa and Zambia
12/11/2021
Linked Articles
As Vaccines Trickle into Africa, Zambia’s Challenges Highlight Other Obstacles
NYTimes.com 12/11/2021
The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa’s Effort to Stanch Dangerous MutationsNYTimes.com 12/04/2021
The world one year after lockdown in March 2020
03/23/2021
Linked Articles
Queen leads royal tributes to NHS in minute’s silence to mark year since lockdown
03/23/2021
One Year of Lockdowns- Where India Stands NowHindustan Times 03/23/2021
India's Production Linked Incentive plan for 2025 under Atman Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
12/16/2020
Linked Articles
Opinion: PLI scheme - achieving the goal
mint 12/16/2020
‘Pushing India to surpass China in mobile manufacturing’: Ravi Shankar PrasadHindustan Times 12/16/2020
How global travel seeded the first and second wave of the pandemic- ski resorts in March and beach resorts in September
09/30/2020
Linked Articles
Ski, Party, Seed a Pandemic: The Travel Rules That Let Covid-19 Take Flight
NYTimes.com 09/30/2020
Tourists in Croatia Help Feed Covid-19 Surge Across EuropeWSJ 09/21/2020
California 2020 Utopia in Dystopia- extremes of wealth, sky high housing prices, wildfires and the pandemic
08/27/2020
Linked Articles
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian 12/15/2017
Dark days lie ahead in the dystopia of CaliforniaThe Times 11/14/2019
South Africa and coronavirus storm
08/04/2020
Linked Articles
South African virus cases pass half million mark
BBC News 08/02/2020
South Africa faces 'coronavirus storm', Ramaphosa says - Eye on AfricaFrance 24 07/27/2020
How Britain made preparations for H1N1 (2015) following the SARS pandemic (2009), then lost interest ditching the effort with Brexit consuming the nation
05/16/2020
How could this happen? Read more to know why. In 2016 Britain even conducted a rehearsal called Cygnus to fight H2N2.
Linked Articles
What was Exercise Cygnus and what did it find?
The Guardian 05/17/2020
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disasterThe Times 05/16/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus - from the South Korea MERS outbreak in 2015
04/12/2020
Hospital to hospital transmission as a patient is transferred from one smaller hospital to two other hospitals in Seoul transmitting MERS to 37 patients along the way in 2015.
Linked Articles
Experts Fault South Korean Response to MERS Outbreak
New York Times 06/13/2015
MERS Virus’s Path: One Man, Many South Korean HospitalsNew York Times 06/08/2015
The shift in South Korean public opinion from 52% to 72% support in 2017 for the U.S. Thaad anti missile system
08/30/2017
Linked Articles
‘Thaad’ Gains Acceptance in South Korea Following Pyongyang’s Tests
WSJ 08/30/2017
South Koreans Feel Overlooked by U.S. in North Korea DebateWSJ 08/30/2017
Road trips across Cuba in 2015 and Iran in 2017 showing how sanctions hit smaller countries
05/19/2017
Linked Articles
On the Open Road, Signs of a Changing Cuba
New York Times 01/06/2015
My Strange Trip Through Iran’s Heartland05/19/2017
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