Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US, negotiator says
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-will-not-agree-50-50-chip-production-deal-with-us-negotiator-says-2025-10-01/
Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US, negotiator says
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-will-not-agree-50-50-chip-production-deal-with-us-negotiator-says-2025-10-01/
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God damn. I may not like having a child trafficking pedophile as president but he sure is kicking ass on these deals. NOT. I wish I could laugh at this shit.
Oh, how surprising.
Whyever would Taiwan, famously indispensable for their chip production, not want to take this deal?
Honestly, it’s better not to let the US into your house. They come with gifts, but they always try to steal your stuff on the way out.
I wouldn’t either
🇹🇼 strong. Fuck the negotiators trying to strong arm them. You want to tariffs the chips, then there are plenty of other buyers out there. In the end, the US ends up shooting themselves in the foot
It just seems like extortion, except that the US has no real leverage. If the US stops protecting Taiwan, China wins and the consequences are felt for decades.
What happens next is, Trump will start to coerce them by saying something like “if China invades, we won’t protect you”.
Edit: spelling
Mafia protection, once you let them in, you can’t get them out, and they’ll keep asking for more or threatening you. Might as accept China at that point
Master negotiator btw
Taiwanese govt would have had to have rocks in their heads to agree to it.
Incoming 150% Tariff on Taiwan from the Baby-in-Chief
it smells very much like the Korean denial of “donating 350B” to US treasury. All those “trade deals” that sounds good simply does not work.
Why would they let go of 50% of the reason the US and rest of the world would come to protect them?
Just buy some trump cryptocoin and everything will be forgiven
So this is how Trump will justify letting china invade Taiwan
‘hey! give away your nukes. US will protect you!’ ah negotiation.
Come to Canada 🇨🇦 and make a great 👍 deal.
They will do a deal with Japan.
…could they even do it if they wanted to? Getting chip factories up and running is absurdly expensive and time consuming from what I’ve heard. There’s a reason why there’s so few advanced ones out there.
Maybe they can directly ask whether Taiwan want to be a part of U.S….
Good for them. Nobody should negotiate with the United States until they get their country back.
As a result, Trump will likely threaten to not back Taiwan when China invades, encouraging China to take the island sooner than later.
US operating like the mafia, “protection” to Canada, Ukraine, Taiwan, for Resources
No one in their right mind wants to do business with convicted criminals who’ve consistently scammed their business agreements.
It’s that simple.
This is the same type of shit russia pulled on ukraine over the nukes promised to protect them then invaded them afterwards anyways
Which they shouldn’t
Easier just to stall until the Fast Food Fuhrer keels over.
Because even if it were reasonable (it isn’t) and they wanted to (they don’t), **it isn’t fucking possible.**
It would take at least a decade to get the supply chains and facilities in place, and even longer to ram p up the kind of insane production being discussed.
Only an idiot would agree to that
I’m surprised he hasn’t offered them to be the 5(2)nd state??
I can’t wait to no longer hear this name uttered ever again.
Weak negotiation tactic by the US fell flat as expected
Honestly if I was Taiwan, I would just “agree” to this. The timeline to build out the infrastructure to follow through in this is decades even if they fully committed and went full steam ahead, instead they can drag their feet for a few years and then quietly kill the deal altogether in a few years when Trump inevitably forgets about it or gets replaced by a competent leader.
To tie the security of Taiwan to chip production deal is so wrong cause Trump is trying to suck money into his pockets on this one!
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Of course not. Anyone with half a brain will never agree to extortionist deal like that. It is Taiwan’s ace in the card and US can’t do nothing unless it give up Taiwan and then lose access to state of the art chips to China.
Weird how “give us everything and we’ll give you nothing for it” isn’t a solid basis for a deal, and that’s before you get to the part where none of this is worth a damn because the president’s word, and therefore the country’s, is completely worthless.
I’m sure the people who voted for the mad clown again because eggs were more expensive are happy now that eggs are even more expensive and Nazis in charge have completely ruined the nation’s reputation for generations.
Agree to it? They can’t afford to reduce production to that level. US production isn’t even ramped up and it’s likely 5 years from reaching 70% capacity of the Taiwan production.
Taiwan holds all of the proverbial chips in this “discussion “, why would they ever listen to Trump?
Our country is run by people who think regulations are too hard and stupid.
Forget about why would Taiwan want to do this and start with how in the fuck could they? The skilled labor that would be required would be too expensive, and none of them would ever move to the states where the real sweetheart deals would be available.
Put Jim bob and his cousins on the line in bumfuck Georgia and you might as well skip packaging and go straight to the dumpster, because the end product won’t be good enough to run a tomogoch from 1992.
It’s an absurd ask. That proposal fails on basic logic. Taiwan (and every nation, really) should respond to Trumpian demands with Trumpian agreements, which is to say they should agree to the demands and tell the Trump regime that whatever they’ve agreed to is just two weeks away.
Kind of a poor negotiating choice. “If you don’t move half of your super valuable production to our country, we’ll stop protecting you from our mutual rival and have to negotiate with them for your super valuable product after they have invaded and taken control of your country.”
The USA is playing dangerous not-smart games again. They can not afford to lose Taiwan as a critical chips supplier. Nobody can. So trying to blackmail them was a reckless move.
Why on Earth would they have agreed to that? It’s what keeps them important enough to be worth defending.
Taiwan was already going to work in America until some idiot burned down the CHIPS act.
Granted the US needs to up it’s chip production capabilities but asking a country to just give away half of it’s biggest product is a massive ask.
Whoa, the US wants chip production?? I thought we didnt thats why we got rid of the CHIPs act.
How incompetent. He’s probably eating his 10am big Mac while his yes men tell him how brilliant, strong, and powerful he is.
Honestly if I were them I would threaten to cut shipments to the US or US companies by 50%.
Why the fuck would they? It’s not even a deal for them, it’s just giving up something they have and getting nothing in return.
Bruh as an American i would have been happy with a 90/10 deal. They make 90 and we make 10
Yeah no kidding. From Taiwan’s perspective why would they ever agree to this? It’s no secret that China is very likely going to try and take back Taiwan within the next few years.
It would be very stupid for them to get rid of the main leverage they have so the US military will protect them.
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