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FairAndUnbiased said:

I was told that Nexperia only made stone age chips that anyone can easily replicate.

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A potato said:

I want to add something onto this.
I got called a white supremacist on Xiaohongshu for saying Qingdao,Shanghai,Tianjin etc would be better cities if just let their colonial heritage die instead of making it their entire identity.

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Randomuser said:

There's too much focus on choosing between A or B. It should be more like the city once was a colony but it's no longer one. Instead it used what it learnt during hard times to become something far greater than it's previous self could ever imagine. That's what I believe is true victory.

And Europeans can go yeah but we were there first. But I realized these words mean less these days coz their places are going downhill. If they were so ingenious, they could figure out a way to save their own countries instead of claiming credit for some places thousands of miles away decades later.

The whole purpose of the past is to learn from it to apply to the decisions you make today. If you're just using it to wewuz about your has been self, that's not really using it effectively.

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Their colonial heritage DID die when they were defeated and left,but some physical remnants do remain, hopefully as bitter reminders of the pain and suffering of the past's weakness and disunity ,not a glorification of the invaders-Macao has its Portugese influences and HK has its remnants but I do wish HK would rename all British Crown areas like Victoria Harbour ,Victoria Peak etc to an innocuous HK Harbour etc

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iewgnem said:

Nexperia is a third rate MOSFET maker that one can replace easily with other suppliers, the problem is
1. Other suppliers already sold their chips and dont have enough capacity to replace Nexperia's volume outside China
2. Other suppliers are also Chinese

That is to say, only Chinese automakers can easily replace Nexperia, lol

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FairAndUnbiased said:

They should buy from their great ally Texas Instruments.

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burritocannon said:

think about it though if all the projections were that in the long term the us is going to get overtaken no matter what by just the tyranny of numbers, then what's the play? it's gotta be an all-in use-it-or-lose it situation right?
there's still plenty of petroleum to last a while. the electric stack has not fully matured yet. this is one last window to go all out with the petroleum stack.

so i think it is in fact plausible, not irrational, strategy to temporarily reverse policies in order to mount a breakout offensive. in this scenario, the vision is that the loss of leadership in the short term won't matter, because there will be no china after an american victory.
-electric stack will fall into us hands after a chinese loss
-rare earths will fall into us hands after a chinese loss
-r&d will return to the us after a chinese loss
this is a scenario where, perhaps in truly american fashion, little timmy interjects, "well why doesnt the rabbit simply pull out a gun and shoot the tortoise for having overtaken him?"

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A potato said:

I want to add something onto this.
I got called a white supremacist on Xiaohongshu for saying Qingdao,Shanghai,Tianjin etc would be better cities if just let their colonial heritage die instead of making it their entire identity.

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A potato said:

@Ringsword

I get what you mean. However that only actually rewrites history. The better version is to return the city to it's orignial roots and emphasize Chinese culture and idenity to the world (Shanghai being an international city does not mean Shanghai has to westernize and adopt western ideas, it means the city is welcoming but the foreigners have to understand that this is China and they have to repsect the culture) also the europeans never actually founded those cities.

Tianjin and Shanghai were already thriving port cities long before the Europeans arived and Qingdao, Dailan and even HK etc where already pre existing ports and their development into metropolises were a completly Chinese intiative. Even HK can fall into my statement as the it remained a corrupt crime ridden aparthied hell hole until the 1970s when the brits knew they would have to hand it over and it really shine as the Pearl after handover. All the Europeans did was turn those cities into corrupt, crime ridden aparthied regimes and that is the only way we should view the colonial legacy of said cities.

However the local governments for some reason rewrites it to make look like it brought their cities to a metropolises identity but this isn't true in the slightest. In the end people in the coastal regions should really stop giving credit to europeans when they never actually develop those colonies and removing them would actually close the chapter for good because it dosen't erase history it makes history.

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A potato said:

I got called a white supremacist on Xiaohongshu for saying Qingdao,Shanghai,Tianjin etc would be better cities if just let their colonial heritage die instead of making it their entire identity.

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iewgnem said:

TI doesnt make discrete / MOSFETs, nor do they have the capacity.

Its basically a no win situation for Netherlands now, because even if they undo everything, give Wingtech their shares back and CEO his position, the first thing Wingtech will do is move everything to China and shutdown European liability.

And right now China has absolutely nothing to lose from walking away, Wingtech just finished a new China wafer plant that 1 to 1 matches all existing Nexperia European wafer fab, while Europe has no packaging plant even planed. Chinese EV market is more than enough to absorb Nexperia's volume directly or indirectly, while Nexperia Europe has no ability to sell their wafers.

Lastly but not least, China has every reason and incentive to make an example out of Netherlands. IMO China should just force European automakers who doesnt want to shutdown production to switch to Chinese brands and let Nexperia Europe die.

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