ericjmorey@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Tarrifs are only a positive in cases where they are conditioned on labor, environmental, and other externalities being priced in and regional subsidies being countered. That seems like the case here.
But I suspect that the threat is being used as a negotiation tactic and China will call the bluff.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 months ago
Agree on the first part … disagree on the latter.
Joe has invested heavily in domestic production of “the next generation of technology” (chips, solar panels, electric vehicles, etc).
This is in no small part about protecting that … and I don’t think there’s much in terms of negotiating that China could do here.
averyminya@beehaw.org 5 months ago
The extreme support that Intel has gotten from our government to move chip production stateside agrees with this