[throwaway2474]

There is an enormous amount of skepticism towards the US TSMC deal in Taiwan, in the sense that Tsai Ing-wen “sold out” Taiwanese IP and top engineers due to political pressure.

And in fairness, the US does not have a strong track record wrt its overseas military shenanigans actually helping locals, to put it lightly. A lot of people in Taiwan are anti-CCP, but at the same time, not pro-US because they see the US as an untrustworthy or at least unreliable military ally.

[bee_rider]

OTOH it seems fairly safe to build a TSMC factory in the US and loan us some engineers. I mean it isn’t as if we’re actually going to make the long term investments in the education of our people required to steal TSMC’s secrets.

[semi-extrinsic]

> And in fairness, the US does not have a strong track record wrt its overseas military shenanigans actually helping locals, to put it lightly.

Furthermore the looming US presidential election is making people nervous even in countries that don't depend strongly on the US...

[throwaway2037]

> There is an enormous amount of skepticism towards the US TSMC deal in Taiwan, in the sense that Tsai Ing-wen “sold out” Taiwanese IP and top engineers due to political pressure.

I followed that story in the media for months. I never saw this sentiment. Can you share some sources? I couldn't find anything from mainstream media.