Does anyone read the news that USA chipmakers have embedded a location tracking device in high-end chip-sets to make sure those chips do not end up in China? Very innocent and surprisingly self-declaration, which those who understand the USA would never swallow. What I think they are doing now is plainly damage control, nothing else, knowing that doing that can also be a precursor to inserting a kill switch later on, if the USA had not already done so. I believe China has discovered this, while the USA is trying to come clean fast after being caught red-handed. Which is why China is telling its industry players to avoid Nvidia H20 chips. Nothing happens in a vacuum to quote Dr. David Oualaalou.
Inserting a tracking device is just as bad as a kill switch if it is taken as the norm, that could be later migrated discreetly to include a kill switch. The more I come to understand, the more I am convinced that kill switches in planes is no science fiction story. Who would be foolish enough now to trust USA chipmakers?
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The Trump administration is painting itself into a corner it cannot escape from. Trump thinks he is winning battles but is in fact losing the wars. Lying about USA winning on every front does not change the facts. It is just kicking the can further down the road for the next person to deal with and so on.
ReplyDeleteThe USA wants to control the world, but many things are beyond its control already. The sale of USA Treasuries failed to garner the support of the rest of the world in an attempt by the USA to fund its spending spree. The US$ has depreciated substantially over the past couple of months and is beyond the control of the USA as well. Why would foreign funds want to invest in treasuries when the fall in the value of the US$ fails to cover the returns?
Rare earth minerals are in the hands of China, so making weapons for war is not up to the USA to dictate. Rare earth is China's trump card, with Trump having lost his cards to China already. Of course, Trump still has his US$5 million USA visa card to play around with very rich individuals around the world.
Therefore, two important aspects to enable the USA to exert control are already beyond its control. The gloating about manufacturing returning to the USA is at best a mirage, with even true-blue USA entities moving investments out of the USA due to escalating raw materials and labor costs arising from the tariffs on things like aluminum and steel. Business leaders think much faster and further ahead than those sitting in the White House.
We have not yet seen the shit hitting the fan yet with the real onset of the collateral damage arising from the tariff war. Next couple of months will be interesting to watch. By then, the USA may even lose it grip trying to control its domestic problems as a result of the tariff war.
Internally, the USA already lost control over its homelessness problem. Clearing the streets just shifted the problem elsewhere, with housing rental cost prohibitive to street dwellers who had been used to paying nothing in rent and utilities.
Internally, the USA already lost control over its drug problem as well not knowing how to deal with it and trying to blame China. If China was supplying those drugs, why aren't the Chinese people being drugged as well? China learnt a very important lesson from the Opium War and Chinese people are not going to let another opium war weaken their soul and destroy the country like in the past.