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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.
Linked Articles
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
Friendshoring- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Jake Sullivan NSA Advisor's call to invest in India
03/07/2023
American leaders president Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan call for friendshoring- to invest in Indian manufacturing. This will reduce concentration of manufacturing in one country and create abetter more resilient supply chain. The pandemic and supply chain problems that added to inflation showed the extraordinary risks of the existing supply chain. As pointed out by FInance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an interview at Raisina Dialogue India is creating the right conditions to attract foreign investors in Indian maufacturing for advanced technologies.
Linked Articles
U.S. Pursues India as a Supply-Chain Alternative to China
WSJ 03/06/2023
Raisina Dialogue 2023: In conversation with Finance Minister Nirmala SitharamanThe Economic Times 03/06/2023
Years of hyper growth followed by slight or shrinking growth in China
07/31/2022
For years China pushed hyper growth without correctly understanding the sources of that hyper growth and its consequences in the long run. Communities in the US and the EU simply could not cope with the hyper shift of factories from local regions to China that created the hyper growth in China. Local governments in China and self interested investment banks in the US and Eu pushed for this growth and the central government failed to act with restraining action. The result is alienated public in the US and EU, intense trade and competitive frictions and permanent damage to friendly US China, US EU relations. The domestic side of this hyper growth was the overdependence on the property sector which was asked to carry a bigger burden for development leading to the crisis today with local governments strained for financing by $900 billion as reported in WSJ today July 31. 2022. This did not need to happen. China entered this experiment with capitalism without restraining action with very little knowledge of the market economy and how it operates correctly only with restraining and corrective action in the interests of the whole people of the country. Too much has gone wrong for peoples on either side, the unintended effects and consequences in the simple unbridled pursuit of self-interest alone.
Linked Articles
China’s Economy Tested by Strained City Finances
WSJ 07/31/2022
China’s Manufacturing Sector Unexpectedly Contracts Amid Weak Demand, Covid LockdownsWSJ 07/31/2022
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
How the Ukraine War Happened- Miscalculations on All Sides
04/03/2022
Linked Articles
An Astonishing Self-Portrait by Russia's President
NYTimes.com 04/02/2022
Vladimir Putin’s 20-Year March to War in Ukraine—and How the West Mishandled ItWSJ 04/01/2022
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
Nature walks and improved health and wellbeing- Essential during the Coronavius Pandemic
10/09/2021
Walks taken out in parks, nature settings, and further out in wooded areas are seen as essential for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. This is becoming increasingly popular in the UK and can be pursued in the US, other parts of Europe, India, other parts of Asia, Latin America and Africa as a way to promote neglected mental health during the pandemic. Vaccines are doing their part for body health yet much remains to be done for mental health which has taken a big hit during the pandemic.
Linked Articles
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/2021
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – studyThe Guardian 06/13/2019
Armies of accountants, lawyers, financial experts and the problem of tax evasion, money laundering, that reaches $3.6 trillion worldwide
10/06/2021
Years of revelations have not changed the way the system operates. Inertia is instituionalized and the political system is available for hire, says a professor at the University of Sheffield.
Linked Articles
Too big to jail: why the crackdowns on dodgy finance have been so ineffective | Prem Sikka
The Guardian 10/06/2021
How Accounting Giants Craft Favorable Tax Rules From Inside GovernmentNYTimes.com 09/19/2021
The origins of the coronavirus and the 2018 NIH lifting of a US ban on virus research that increases transmissibility
06/04/2021
Dr. Fauci, NIH, HHS, lifted the ban on research and manipulation of virus in lab settings in 2018 The role played by the Cambridge Group of scientists who opposed lifting the ban on gain of function research for surveillance purposes. The US public and the public in the world in India, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America unaware of what was going on. The devastating effects of the coronavirus in 202 and 2021 and the lack of a vaccine in 2020, lack of a vaccine in sufficient quantities in 2021. The paltry benefits of surveillance compared to the great risks of something going wrong, as pointed out by the Cambridge Group. Why was it ignored in 2018. Who makes decisions for public health in the world. Can the US make decisions for India, the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Does even the US public know about it, much less the public in the world at large. What power is given by the US Constitution to US government agencies on matters of public health. How are a few individuals at HHS and NIH accountable to the public in the US and the world at large.
Linked Articles
Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies endsThe Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
"Feierabend"- disconnecting from work the German way, the need of the times during a year of remote work 2021
04/23/2021
"Feierabend" simply means disconnecting in German so that one has time to renew and revive oneself. At 4.00 pm or 5.00 pm one simply disconnects from work and gets on the bike for a ride or does something else. Can British and American cultures learn from their German or European counterparts? Ireland has passed a law calling for this disconnect requiring it because of the huge negative impact on mental health of remote work that has no structures. Microsoft has recognized this issue in 2020. More needs to be done by companies than to simply shift this burden,shift this task on someone else, or to workers who have no idea what working from home requires. Associations and other groups also need to get involved.
Linked Articles
Right to disconnect is vital for future health of home workers
04/23/2021
How 'Feierabend' helps Germans disconnect from the workdayBBC News 07/12/2022
Germany sayings around running and practices such as "Feierabend" for healthy living during the pandemic
02/01/2021
Deutsche Welle gives pictures and sayings around the theme of running for practicing good mental health during the pandemic. The German practice of "Feierabend" is about breaking the workday and taking up something else such as running, biking or something relaxing. Overworking and irregular hours are two dangers to avoid during the pandemic.
Linked Articles
German expressions to get you 'running' | DW | 27.01.2021
DW.COM 01/27/2021
How 'Feierabend' helps Germans disconnect from the workdayBBC News 07/12/2022
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
FBI scrutiny of Chinese researchers
09/09/2020
Linked Articles
Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on China on Several Fronts
WSJ 07/16/2020
WSJ News Exclusive | FBI Sweep of China Researchers Leads to Cat-and-Mouse TacticsWSJ 09/07/2020
How television channels and internet media are failing to ask questions about what will be done on climate change action 2024-2028?
07/31/2024
Linked Articles
How the Murdoch family ended up in a legal fight over the future of Fox
Washington Post 07/31/2024
What Rupert Murdoch Owns, and How He Built His Media EmpireNYTimes.com 07/30/2024
Softbank the epitome of massively distorted capital markets even as healthcare, childcare, manufacturing technolgies, infrastructure suffered severe lack of funding
08/08/2022
How Softbank became the epitome and poster child for the distorted capital markets of today is shown here in the WSJ. It is a sad story of how America and Europe failed to invest in its people with egregious harm to 900 million people as healthcare, childcare, manufacturing technologies and infrastructure were neglected.
Linked Articles
WSJ 08/08/2022
SoftBank Reports Record $23 Billion Quarterly Loss as Tech Downturn HitsWSJ 08/08/2022
From the Himalayas to the Indo-Pacific - the common element
07/13/2022
How a free and open Himalayas and a free and open Indo-Pacific share a common element of being free and open throughout history and how the US mission of free navigation in the Pacific and the Indian efforts in the Himalayas seek to maintain this.
Linked Articles
China ‘drives away’ US destroyer in South China Sea
The Times 07/13/2022
S Jaishankar: Prime Minister Modi Has Given First Priority To Foreign PolicyThe Indian Express 07/13/2022
German policy under four term chancellor Angela Merkel that emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine
04/11/2022
Linked Articles
‘Wrong about Putin’: Did Germany and France turn a blind eye to the threat from Russia?
France 24 04/10/2022
Vladimir Putin’s 20-Year March to War in Ukraine—and How the West Mishandled ItWSJ 04/01/2022
Escaping the Algorithm - Harmful effects on girls and the young of TikTok and social media
12/29/2021
If and how one can escape these algorithm based harmful social media platforms is the question posed by the WSJ series on TikTok, Facebook, others in 2021.
Linked Articles
The TikTok Spiral, Part 1: Descent - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/27/2021
The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm - Tech News Briefing - WSJ PodcastsWSJ 12/29/2021
The shift in Europe's relations with China from Prague to Paris
10/26/2021
Linked Articles
In Germany, Hamburg is at the heart of a growing dilemma over China
South China Morning Post 10/26/2021
Taiwan Gains Favor in Europe’s East, Angering ChinaWSJ 10/26/2021
The Hong Kong, Taiwan crises and American risks in existing supply chains and manufacturing arrangements
10/06/2021
The crises in Hong Kong and Taiwan lead to a reevaluation of existing supply chain and manufacturing arrangements by the Biden administration. The coronavirus pandemic with over 700,000 deaths in the US and a large number of deaths in Europe and India are leading to a new awareness of the importance of manufacturing at home and not depending on far flung supply chains. Public perceptions have changed yet American companies continue to operate as before without an awareness of the changes in public perceptions.
Linked Articles
U.S. Trade Policy Adapts to a China That Will Never Change
WSJ 10/06/2021
China Would Be Able to Launch Attack on Taiwan by 2025, Island’s Defense Minister WarnsWSJ 10/06/2021
How to get to a family friendly home and workplace- important for women's Mental Health
09/24/2021
WSJ provides ways women can accomplish two goals important for women's Mental Health and for a decent work-life balance- 1. How to find a family friendly workplace. 2. How to get men to share in household chores so that women are not overwhelmed or frustrated, as more women return to the workplace to improve incomes and use their skills.
Linked Articles
How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.WSJ 09/23/2021
Mental health crisis during coronavirus pandemic- Japan and France
05/05/2021
Linked Articles
Covid-19: French mental health ‘deteriorating’ amid lockdown, minister says
France 24 11/23/2020
Japan: 'Minister of loneliness' tackles mental health crisis | DW | 23.04.2021DW.COM 04/25/2021
Fukushima, Japan, ten years after the nuclear meltdown and tsunami
03/11/2021
Linked Articles
‘There’s No Town Left’: Fukushima’s Eerie Landscapes
NYTimes.com 03/11/2021
Japan’s Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster Unleashed a $300 Billion Effort to Rebuild a HinterlandWSJ 03/10/2021
U.S. China Phase 1 Trade Agreement not working out
01/15/2021
Linked Articles
A Year On, China Falls Short on Trade-Deal Targets
WSJ 01/15/2021
China Exports Generate Record Trade SurplusWSJ 12/07/2020
Congress passed a new law to delist Chinese companies on U.S. stock exchanges not under U.S. regulatory agency with little impact
12/03/2020
Linked Articles
China Has One Powerful Friend Left in the U.S.: Wall Street
WSJ 12/02/2020
Delisting Chinese Stocks in the U.S. Won’t Sever Their Access to Global CapitalWSJ 12/03/2020
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