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Gretchen Whitmer's big goal in US-Taiwan perspective

 Without further ado, start here with my friend Simon:


https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/gretchen-whitmers-big-goal-michigan-chip-plant-she-leaves-office


Well, when we consider the silicon supply chain it is all based on water which is plentiful here.  We soak in 20-some percent of the world’s fresh water so we have a bone to pick with Arizona getting the first fabs.  It really would make sense at least for Michigan to be the second most suitable place for chip fabs because while Arizona can make a case for cheap power once solar development ramps up there, Michigan has the water that is necessary for fabrication and options on how to proceed with integration into car and vehicle systems especially the new fields of R&D in electric —sound systems, navigation, entertainment and information take precisely the type of high tech that onshoring chip production and high tech assembly lines truly brings about. 

Big chip manufacturers like TSMC are benchmarks in the tech economy in that any advancement in the technology works to their benefit.  Besides their being situated in a critical role they have the advantage of not being bound by certain outcomes inherent in running an integrated business, but can engage freely as they see fit in their area of specialty.  TSMC sees a lot of corporate overhead as a vanity.  NatSec accounts for some of this and it goes the same for both American and Taiwanese National Security.  How should newer heads to this issue see TSMC, as a corporate entity or something else?  Although it is a corporation its existence is basically one giant manifestation of the government to government cooperation between the United States and Taiwan. That is simply to say that the United States and Taiwan don’t have an official relationship, except for all the ways that they are unofficially best friends.  TSMC and basically anything in the tech supply chain that is still worth innovating on extensively, that is to say stuff governments are working on — It used to be cloud, now it’s AI, soon it will be quantum — is part of the “robust unofficial relationship”, as is TECRO* (Tee-Cro) and AIT*; funny enough the Carl Vinsson, that is to say the USS Carl Vinsson in the Pacific Fleet is an unofficial exchange zone or acts in an official capacity in fostering exchange and trust with Taiwan.  The ways are numerous in which Americans are in the same boat as Taiwanese—delicate democracies in a world filled with authoritarians, free, market societies for what that’s worth, close history of exchange and cooperation, dedication to progress, human rights and equality; what’s more is that this relationship has evolved out of shared history of affiliation with enlightenment principles.  But it has evolved from the history involved.  History cannot be ended by any method that I know of. The new events in history will again bring the unofficial relationship with Taiwan into considerations of bilateral power, with the caveat that time moves on and thus what subjects are considered valid for bilateral agreement and cooperation are added to.  The future will not be like the past, the future will be what it is and it won’t rely on past mistakes, which when it comes to US and Taiwan history, there were many, to decide what happens.  That would be an absurdity.  We are used to saying that to support Taiwan we should focus on tech policy that would be mutually beneficial; that is how you have done it in the past.  Change will be ongoing in that regard.  There will be more ways to think about this trans-Pacific American destiny; a destiny not by destination but by lasting exchange, partnership, cooperation; mutual amity.  

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