US ordered TSMC, not Taiwan the country. The vast majority of sales are made to US based firms so they likely have a lot of sway.
US is the major customer of TSMC, so they can order them, not to mention we protect them with defense pacts, so they might want to actually listen. Pretty sure they make some of our military grade chips as well.
Cutting edge chips are used in cutting edge military hardware. TSMC provides a lot of the chips used in advanced American weapons. Turns out a faster chip in a missile makes the missile better able to make sophisticated split second decisions.
US can order most of its allies to do anything. Remember when the US thought Edward Snowden was on the Bolivian presidential airplane and within the span of like, half a hour, managed to get all of western europe to deny airspace to Bolivia, ground the literal presidential plane and search him like a dirty drug mule? Was pretty awkward after that when Snowden wasn’t even there.
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I know there’s a lot of different definitions on fascism, but one of them originated from Italy is, that the state and corporations act together. In this case, the US tries to bully Taiwan corporations to do their bidding “or else”.
I know some would say it dosent count because the Taiwan firm can do as it pleases, but it becomes fascism when the Taiwan government now need to force the corporation to do as the US says.
Indirect fascism. But then again there’s also parts of the US that’s not fascism, and then we can keep on going.
You are right that is capital F fascism. However you don’t attribute Fascism to the interactions of countries. Nowadays Fascism doesn’t really exist but fascism does and that is usually an “in-house” thing.
However this is like a core tenet of neoliberalism and I think not wanting to point that out does harm. Neoliberalism is shit and when it be doing evil shit call it out.
I wouldn’t call what happened to Honduras and Banana Republic stuff fascism I’d call it neoliberalism.
Fair enough. I looked it up, and I think you’re right.