Harassment of Taiwan an ominous clue to Trump 2.0 foreign policy

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US President Donald Trump’s threat to levy tariffs against imported semiconductors creates additional stress for Taiwan, which is already menaced by increasing military pressure from the People’s Republic of China. 

Trump’s threat also indicates the ascendancy within the White House, at least for now, of American unilateralism over the alternative of attempting to build a collective security bulwark against China.

On January 27, Trump said that “in the very near future” the US government would impose tariffs on foreign-produced semiconductors, explaining that the objective is to “return the production of these essential goods to the United States.” He then specifically mentioned that chip-makers “left us and they went to Taiwan.” 

https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/harassment-of-taiwan-an-ominous-clue-to-trump-2-0-foreign-policy/

 

This is Trump's way of punishing Taiwan's TMSC for building a now operational semiconductor  plant in Arizona  And it has plans to open another one, too. And they deserve that punishment. After all, it was those shadowy, traitorous figures in the Biden Administration that negotiated the deal. 

 

$6.6 billion TSMC deal in Arizona the latest in the CHIPS Act’s rollout

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/04/09/tsmc-deal-chips-acts-semiconductors/