The Post-Partisan Emporium

  George Kennan and the Wolfowitz Doctrine What the hell am I doing? That is a question that really interests me. —Theodore Zeldin Dear Friends + Interlocutors, What are they trying to do, what do they want to accomplish, and why? With reference to the entrenched cabal that has been running Washington for decades, in particular since the end of the Cold War (1990), these basic questions have been racking my brain in recent weeks. We’ve got to step back and look at the big picture, a larger context. Does the world's current predicament basically derive from the so-called  Wolfowitz Doctrine of 1992 , prepared under the stewardship of Dick Cheney at the Pentagon?  In the aftermath of the Soviet Union collapse (1989) and the U.S.-led successful ejection of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait (1991), Washington lost its bearings. Its collective mindset went fantee. To quote from  the Pentagon document , known as the Defense Planning Guidance:  “...The U.S. must show the lead...

US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China ASML is not about to voluntarily leave China, where it has sold a thousand chip-making tools over the decades By   JEFF PAO OCTOBER 31, 2022 Dutch firm ASML thinks it gave up enough when it halted exports to China of the world's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines for mass production (pictured). It wants to keep exporting its older DUV technology despite American entreaties. Photo: ASML The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg  reports  that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information and coordinate enforcement to reinforce the United States’s bilateral restrictions on exports to China, similar to what the US and EU did to Moscow earlier this year. That report comes af...

(It's ALL about DEMOCRACY !) The House speaker's trip came after Congress passed a bill that includes $52 billion to subsidize domestic chip manufacturing by Dave DeCamp   Posted on August 3, 2022  Categories News Tags  Taiwan While in Taiwan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)  met with the island’s top semiconductor industry leaders  as the US is looking to gain an edge on China when it comes to chip manufacturing. Pelosi’s trip came after Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act,  a massive $280 billion piece of legislation  that includes $52 billion in subsidies for companies to build and expand chip manufacturing facilities. Pelosi met with the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest chip manufacturer,  to discuss the CHIPS and Science Act . The meeting signals that the US is looking to entice TSMC to open more facilities in the US with the subsidies included in the legislation. TSMC is currently building...