the hi everybody, i'm rick sanchez. you don't have to do a news now for 30 years to languages all over the world. and here in the us and interviewed for president's work that for the u. s. has major television networks been fired by most, hardliners should be honest and direct and impactful, and this is direct impact. the here's the question for you. why was one of the most important leaders and all of us politics spending so much time in taiwan recently? look, there she is. that's nancy pelosi back in august. and she becomes one of the most senior us officials to go to taiwan in 25 years. it's really clear that while china has stood in the way of taiwan participating and

going to certain meetings that they understand, that they will not stand in the way of people coming to taiwan. now, despite dorm regardless of whatever, she says about diplomacy in friendship with the taiwanese people, the fact of the matter is this. her trip was all about one thing. and almost one thing only semi conductor chips, semi conductor chips, if that's not the case, why else then that she spent most of her time while she was there dining with the leaders of the cmc, the taiwan semi conductor manufacturing company, otherwise known as the world's biggest chip maker more on the s m, c and below c in a moment, but 1st i want to back up just a little bit to help you better understand how we got to where we are, how we got to the brand good, what some are now calling an all out global ship for the chips,

as you probably know, run everything, your car, your phone, your refrigerator, you name it. i mean i'm talking about just about everything that's made now and just about everything that's made in the future. and they're getting smaller and smaller and teen see bit smaller. so what is it the, what the, what, what, what is a chip? it's a set of electronic circuits printed into a tiny little piece of silicon that 50 or 60 years ago. that whole thing would have taken up this entire studio. that's how big it would have been. now it's like this big right today. it's microscopic and it's made of silica, why? because silicon allows it to semi conduct electricity. that's why it's called a semi conductor, as far as the chips were made in the united states. but, and because the technology was so specialized and so expensive, and you know, we didn't want to pay workers here all that much money. the us pushed the

manufacturing base of chips to japan. where then workers, there would do it cheaper. and besides, they were already expert at making transistors at the time, the japanese little tiny switch is that turned on and turn off targets. almost overnight, japan became the number one designation for chip manufacturing in the entire world . but then the u. s. said that so fast japan so here's what happens as seen on the look at these pictures. look at this stuff, look at these images. this is from the 1980s us politicians complained that all the jobs were going to japan. so many of them actually walked out on the lot of the us capital and started smashing with it. this is sort of smashing toshiba scenarios, declaring them the enemy,

us trade war with japan was on. so japan is out. so who's in, who's going to make the chips? good question. suddenly the u. s. teams up with taiwan and the to come up with what appears to be a deal from now on taiwan, we manufacture the chips, the fuel, the united states, our tech industries needs at a cheaper price. and in return, taiwan is going to get us warships doing military exercises along its coast. and also along the coast of china to send the message to china. it is what the mafia would call a protection racket, right? i mean, this is the crack. busy of a gangster movie, you give us what we need and we'll make sure nothing happens to you. that's the deal. good deal for both sides, right. i mean from nat geo political arrangement, the world's largest chip maker, p. s m. c. was born to yes,

i'm say the one that that's the and that's velocity met with it's solved for us as chip problem. and the us is military solve taiwan security problems with china. i mean here's the deal. henceforth, taiwan becomes dependent on the u. s. and the u. s. gets all the chips it needs to control the global tech sector so much so that by 2010, 92 percent of all the us chips are made into 192 percent. then somebody goes up, it's suddenly china and it's economy starts to boom. while this is going on, you know, explosive growth, the chinese star leading the way in the making of teammates and phones and monitors and computers and kitchen appliances. and uh, you know, automotive parts you have it because all those things need jets. china starts buying up all the chips that it can get his hands on. they become the world's biggest consumers biggest buyers of chance. but where they're gonna get all the

trips, where are they getting all the chance from here? they're buying them from the united states. remember, we're getting them from taiwan. so think about that. you know, that means china is building their tech economy by using shapes being made in taiwan. their so called arch enemy, right? which didn't matter when china's economy and military needs were small, but not anymore, they're big. so one day us realizes this, they realize the chinese are out performing us, our company's chinese, u. s. companies and billing, so with chips that we hear in the us are supplying through them. and suddenly washington has what we like to call. busy a physics remember when we kick the japanese out of the chip industry? well, here we go again. when the u. s. realizes that china is bidding them and tech development,

we freak out. but the real freak outcomes when we realize that china has use this chip technology to develop and this a missile, so advanced can go around the world at supersonic speeds and can do so. here's a good technology that makes it undetectable. so china, using our trips is building and selling advance weapons, can you say o in the us has to come up with a way to punish china and punish they do in steps. none other than joe biden and the by the administration. but he's the 1st to do this, but it's starting to become even more aggressive divided ministration goes all out with the anti china restrictions that for bid any at all us tech companies from doing business with china. no one is allowed to sell a single chip to china, period. everything is block us. firms are forbidden from doing business with china

and to make things even more restrictive. no us citizen is allowed to take a job working for a chinese firm. in case you were thinking, i could make more money working for china, but us as no, you can't so much then right for all that, talk about a free market that we always brag about, and how that makes us different from the rest of the person. sorry, china, you are not allowed to take part in this free market thing that we always talk about. huh. and speaking of anti free market both, what else does the buy the ministration do it gifts literally gives $50000000000.00 of my money that they take for my taxes to us. tech companies, the ones that make the chips, giving them a leg up a huge leg up on all of their competitors anywhere in the. busy and here in the united states essentially free money, isn't that what we used to accuse china of doing when we say that their companies are communists? who are state sponsored state run, etc?

sounds a lot like it. and then to see on mr. biden's deal even more. there she is, nancy pelosi in taiwan. the message to china is deliver. and the chinese get it. the low see is there to tell taiwan. take making chips while also letting them know we got their backs. call us warships traveling up and down the taiwan straits. we see it like monthly sending an obvious signal telling china back off. but china is no longer a country with just a tech based economy. really now has the world's biggest navy arguably capable of blockading everything that comes in and out of taiwan if it wanted to, including think about there's the export of trips, which would in essence freeze the u. s. economy. in fact, the world economy. why? because everything that we buy here in america is made the chips. remember what

happened with the supply chain disruptions that were caused during coven, you remember that? right? you remember how hard it was to buy a car or anything for that matter? well, if china were to do that, china, or to block a, the coast of taiwan from getting those chips out of there and going throughout the world, and specifically to the united states. experts say it would be $100.00 times worse than the supply chain disruptions that we saw during co that and that that would be a massive global chip or k j. now is a journalist, a political analyst, a writer, and a teacher, specializes in the deal politics of the asia pacific region, k. thanks for joining us. thank you. pleasure to be with you. what about the i the that some are conjecturing that china could actually do a naval blockade with its massive navy and said that the united states look enough

is enough. you live off of these taiwan, these chips. we're not going to let these taiwan these chips get to you anymore. how big a deal would that be? you know, it's possible, nothing's out of the realm of possibility, but i think it would be such an extraordinarily belligerent at that i don't really come in. imagine china doing anything like that, simply a china is approach is to trade and to have good relations with the rest of the world. certainly ships on part of it. and china once peaceful reunification with taiwan island, it's providence that split off through a series of you know, political pressure is largely due to the us and encouraging and supporting its uh, you know, its ability not to re integrate but,

but i think china once peaceful reunification and i cannot imagine something like that happening. okay, well, one thing is what you want k j. and another thing is what you get. and it seems at least to hear china tell it that all it's gotten from the us is a kick in the teeth consistently in many, many, many ways. and at some point they're just going to have to say, look, eyes enough is enough. or what do you know this is true? go ahead. as i said, you know, china once good relations, it's the us which is escalating in what i refer to as hybrid more. and this hybrid war involves tech war, trade, war, financial, voice, and legal work that information warfare, political moisture as well as massive encirclement with bases and this constant drumbeat of military exercises that are becoming more and more threatening. so suddenly, china is not getting any of the results that it wants from its engagement from the

united states a best the us is playing jekyll and hyde. oh, good call. bad caught with it. but still, i can't imagine that the us, the china would try to embargo us, uh, access to taiwan. these trips have been many steps that could be taken long before that. yeah. uh, you know, speeches, you know, holding back right. or with minerals or, or simply refusing or simply sanctioning us corporations the same way that the sanction chinese corporation. by the way, k j, i was reading and i just shared with our listeners and viewers a little while ago that there are some experts who predict that if china didn't do that, i'm not saying they're going to. but if they didn't do that, it would be a 100 times worse than the supply chain disruptions that we saw during co. of course, i mean as a slide chain disruptions during cold with what caused by, you know, uh, factory slowing down or shutting down. uh, you know,

and that was something that eventually was manage. but the simple fact is that the united states is so deeply in mashed with china's economy. yeah. on stuff it's industrial supply chain, most of its industrial manufacturing is done inside of china. and if you take, for example, your average call, your average car has about 30000 different components. your, you know, you'll find a jet has probably 350000 components. and i show you a large number of those components or manufactured in china. and so that's why the coupling or even this you from is a, be risking, is actually extraordinary full. how do you think? but the united states seems to be firmly set on this. and what it's trying to do is it's trying to decouple and it's trying to farm out, certainly it's military, industrial production to japan, to australia now to india. and of course,

to south korea. thanks so much k j stay right there. we're going to come right back in just a minute, by the way i should mentioned to you that we can continue this conversation. all we gotta do is go over to twitter, my handlers, rick sanchez, tv, where we can talk about some of the same things that we're talking about during this particular show. i'll look for you there. now when we come back, the us kicks out, china, as we just explained, is now stepping in and saying, okay, and how about as we become your china alternative will be right back. the release of the russian states never as tight as one of the most sense community best. most all sense enough in the

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by the way, there is something else going on when it comes to the geo politics of chips. india has now begun to sort itself as the alternative to china. when it comes to the manufacturer of sending conductors. it is a balancing a $10000000000.00 incentive plan to boast, semi conductor manufacturing in the country. by the way, they've tried this before in india, and i've not been able to pull it off, but with is paying more now between china and the us when it comes to all things tech. some think maybe this time it could be different that we're back now with do you have political, expert costs or analyst cage? i know i could probably come up with all kinds of descriptions for him, but i think it is good. okay, good. thanks so much. you're a big with us once again. pleasure to be with you. let's talk about india real quick. so anyhow, just as come out recently and said look, us china, you guys can't get along. and apparently the us doesn't want china involved in the

whole chip, manufacture, trade industry. and they're saying we are now willing to step in and because the alternative to china, and we're going to put our money where our mouth is, art body, and his government, our effort in $10000000000.00 to bootstrap, or take start, i guess i should say the chip industry in uh, in india. what do you make about? and i think it's going to be a heavy list, you know, chip so extraordinary, lee complex to build a skilled manufacturing is not easy. remember t s m c has tried to build fads in arizona. it's, you know, it's been encouraged with, you know, $50000000.00, you know, bonus to create a fab in arizona, and it's having a lot of trouble. so that's inside the united states was already the technology, the support of the infrastructure and even the workers. so i think it's going to be

even harder in india, countries that have shifted to other countries outside of china, for example, to vietnam. southeast asia have had difficult transplanting the ship industries. and i think it's going to be a heavy list. but i think it's very important to note that this is happening because as i said, the united states wants to decouple from china. it wants to create a supply chain that is independent and then close the supply chain that is outside of china. and a lot of it's kind of military industrial production will be done in india, korea, japan, and australia. let me ask you the question this way. uh, in regards to what i mentioned a while ago before the break where i said this, i was fascinated by this conversation with between she and blinking, where she essentially set the blinking look. i mean, you can keep doing what you're doing, but there will be consequences. and this thing can become conflict at some point, given your recent track record, which i thought was interesting and those are his exact words. but i think that was

the gist of what he was telling them. do you suspect that the u. s. will take that message and react accordingly, or will they not react at all to that warning for mr. she presidency? well, the us has all ready react to essentially have 3 axes. it's told china that you, it's told china that we don't care what you think. and immediately after a by then called a she, a dictator blinking, i funded. he said that, you know, this is what we all think and feel, and to us as continue to escalate the same thing with uh, you know, the defense minister, they said they wanted direct meetings, direct communications with them. at the same time, there was sending a ship through the taiwan strait in this very belligerent passage. so that uses plain jekyll and hyde explain good comp and bad call it, you know, it makes nice and then immediately the next day it turns around and it does

something aggressive violating abusive from china standpoint. it's like a cycle of domestic violence, except it's not a cycle, it's a spiral and that spiral is spiraling downward towards connected for not withstanding the chip situation in and of itself. that friction, that aggressiveness that you just so well described to us. um, how long can this last before it becomes um, worse or possibly even, you know, some kind of conflagration between our 2 nations. well, i'm very worried about that, greg. i think you put your finger right on it. and i think that this is the most dangerous thing we're facing, that we're right on the premises of genetic war blankets meeting was she was a kind of, i think, a last good faith efforts by the chinese to see, can we reset things, should we reset things to the bottom,

the baseline to body baseline was medium she and uh, and a bite and in bali last year. and they're biting, agreed that we're not engaging in a cold war. we're not trying to suppress china's development. we're not building alliances against china. we're not, we, we don't want more. that was a sense and we were respect, china is sovereignty over taiwan island. those were the agreements. they changed to this agreement and the chinese assumed in good faith that this was the baseline from which they could start from. but clearly, every single one of those understandings has been violated were continually escalating. mine has only a blinking has only paid lip service to this. it needed, he left the meeting, turned around and started to aggress. and uh, you know, this trying to again, and i think this needs that we're very, very close to the press of this of war. it is not an optimistic situation. boy,

let us hope you are wrong. um, by the way, final question only cuz as you may know, i was born in cuba. there is recently been reporting that china is uh, creating some infrastructure locales in cuba, itself, 90 miles away from the united states. what do you make of that? and can you confirm it or do you believe it or do you think it will lead to anything as well? you know, i don't have intel on the ground, but i do know that there's several um journalist and news agencies of being on the ground. they've asked people left right and center all around the place and they both said there's no such thing. there's no such face, it doesn't exist. that's the people on the ground. and then the foreign ministry of cube, i said no, there is no base. the chinese upset no, there is no base. so i think this is just kind of projection. there is a country that does have a foreign base on 2, but that is the united states. the base is called one time where i'm human rights

violations are routine. if china did want to build a base, the 1st place it could and should build a base is in north korea where once again the us is very close to genetic war with china. and north korea has a direct border with china. and it also has a mutual defense treaty, the only country in the world, which has a mutual defense treaty with china is known as grace. so that would be the 1st place to build a base not in cuba. your inside is a amazing k j and you obviously are someone who understands the situation and things through it and reads. and i would encourage anyone to reach out to you or get your materials because you know this stuff. thank you so much. k j. now. thanks for your time here on direct impact. hey, before we go, i want to remind you of our mission. it's simple really. i would love to be silo the world. we've got to stop living in these little boxes where this side doesn't

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