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Multiple Southeast Asian nations – including South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam – have recently opened up on efforts to rework or amend their semiconductor strategies. This is in part to stay competitive in a shifting geopolitical landscape, with the recent US presidential election win by Donald Trump – along with a threat of …

  1. bitwise

    That bridge in the thumbnail breaths fire

    They picked a good bridge for the thumbnail (dragon bridge in Da nang), I'm not sure why they didn't choose a pic of it later when they have it breath fire at the end of each day.

  2. druck Silver badge

    Not free taster

    In anticipation of Trump's tariff policy which will be so bigly good for the US, why wait?

    Stick 20% on the price of everything going to the US now, and let them enjoy the new era of not so free trade.

  3. Kev99 Silver badge

    Ever hear of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? How about large scale investing in the stock market buying on margin? It's coming again and foreign companies are going to be the second biggest loser. US consumers will be the first.

  4. Geoff Campbell Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Major red flag, right there.

    "PPP chief spokesperson Han Jia argued the restriction did not allow the industry to be competitive – even speculating it could cause the sector's workers to "leave the laboratory in the middle of development tests.""

    If you can't schedule your testing to take into account basic working hours requirements of your staff, you aren't a company I want to be working for, thanks everso.

    GJC

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