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.
r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then.
The thread I stole comments from was answering a person asking someone like “how can the US order Taiwan to do anything?”. I hate to promote Reddit but credit where it is due…
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Is it misleading?
r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then.
The thread I stole comments from was answering a person asking someone like “how can the US order Taiwan to do anything?”. I hate to promote Reddit but credit where it is due…
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gnowuf/comment/lwd8fy0
Ahh, that makes more sense! It looked like an odd thing to do