r/wallstreetbets • u/MikeMikeGaming AI bubble survivor • Jan 28 '25

News Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://au.pcmag.com/computers-electronics/109466/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Why don't we kick Nvidia while it's down am I rite?

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor Jan 28 '25

Pushing Taiwan out of America’s orbit is highly regarded. Blanket tariffs are highly regarded.

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u/OldMastodon5363 Jan 28 '25

Back to the FEMA camp you go says Trump

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u/dloiot Jan 28 '25

FEMA is also about to get deleted lmao

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u/Soda Jan 28 '25

Oh, we're sorry, ICE camps.

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u/TheWolrdsonFire Jan 28 '25

Exactly, your offense is that your I.Ds name isn't John America.

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u/VibeComplex Jan 28 '25

Start building your trumpville!

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u/Ridespacemountain25 Jan 28 '25

Nah, he’s considering getting rid of FEMA

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u/tornumbrella Jan 28 '25

On one hand, yes. On the other, what other choice does Taiwan have?Literally every other nation in the South China Sea can join together to sing Kumbaya and collectively moon Beijing, and without the US backing there's literally nothing that they could do. The US has "negotiating" from a position of absolute strength, and for the small small price of future goodwill and trust. Is that going to matter in the next 4 years?

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u/PumpJack_McGee Jan 28 '25

Taiwan could gamble with holding their microchip plants hostage, maybe.

"You invade us, we'll nuke the damn reason why you even want us."

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u/Throwaway-tan Jan 28 '25

That's the only thing they have going for them, but it's not a guarantee to work because there is still plenty of incentive to take Taiwan just for military security reasons, and with an absent US there's little chance that South Korea imposes export bans on it's own semiconductor industry.

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u/burgerbread Jan 28 '25

They could vote to re-unite with China... There is a significant pro-reunification party over there lol.

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u/captaincampbell42 Jan 28 '25

The house just passed a bill to end double taxation for Taiwanese companies doing business in the US almost unanimously, paving the way for a treaty between the two countries. That would have really pissed off China. Probably won't happen after this news.

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u/Medium_Cranberry101 Jan 28 '25

He’ll read this and think it’s a compliment