Aside from the soap opera part --- US v. Taiwanese culture and whether a TSMC wafer in Arizona is more Taiwanese than American --- here's what all managers and engineers should want to know: will these American plants continuously improve? If the plants can be profitable and products from it can be profitable there will be a good positive feedback to attract, retain talent, and to grow the market for same.
The US has let globalism probably overshoot 30% ... so yah we suck right now compared to TSMC at manufacturing 'cause we spent our time doing supply chains ordering from Taiwan. If we still suck after 10 years, then let the criticism fly.
Globalism is not dead; c'mon. But it does need some straightening out. The US is finally at a place where we prefer jobs (with attendant security) over cheap prices.
Yeah. If the US manufacturing can't become competitive in a global market, then whether globalism is dead will not matter: there was no globalism 100 years ago, yet the US economy arose while Britain's declined, simply because the US could build better, cheaper, and faster. Allyn Young didn't believe that the finance center would move from Britain to the US because Britain was appeared so powerful 100 years ago, well, the rest was history.
The US has let globalism probably overshoot 30% ... so yah we suck right now compared to TSMC at manufacturing 'cause we spent our time doing supply chains ordering from Taiwan. If we still suck after 10 years, then let the criticism fly.
Globalism is not dead; c'mon. But it does need some straightening out. The US is finally at a place where we prefer jobs (with attendant security) over cheap prices.