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Macron wants EU to target US Big Tech after new Trump tariff threat (www.politico.eu)
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[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

EU has AMSL and other key semiconductor manufacturing equipment producers. Nokai and Ericsson dominate the telecom installations in the US, to much frustrations of some Americans, and with even the military getting more and more reliant on them.

The CPUs, GPUs, and Smartphones are much more Asian than American. It's just the immediate shock of blocking mails and office software, and some of the even more critical software as well, that the US has long been preparing to use as a brutal leverage. It is not that much about having leverage, as about the state's ability to use it.

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even the UK has significant leverage with ARM.

[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the EU, and the UK, and Canada, Japan, South Korea, could easily cooperate. Their goals in the tariff chaos are more or less aligned (maybe apart from the last two not caring much about Ukraine to the best of my knowledge).

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes. Cooperation among the remaining liberal democracies is important. We are all in the US/Russia/China crosshairs.

Taiwan, Japan and South Korea do care. They are very much afraid that if Russia succeeds, then China would follow suit. Taiwan has a problem with TSMC that opens factories all over the world and therefore dilutes the protection having all the factories in Taiwan was having. South Korea understands the Ukrainian Territory of Donbass is a training ground for Kim's army. And Japan has disputed land to protect from China and Russia.

[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Great points. Shame I did not mention Taiwan. Thanks!