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Keith Krach, who visited Taiwan as the U.S. Under Secretary of State in 2020, was the current U.S. State Department official who visited Taiwan at the highest level in 41 years.
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Romania Rejected Communism, It Should Reject Communist 5G.
Chinese companies like Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, and others may appear like typical private businesses but they are, in fact, weapons of a Chinese communist regime that’s even more dangerous than the Soviet Union.”
Startup founders are from Mars, policymakers are from Venus
To lawmakers, terms like 5G, AI, EV, quantum are meaningless. Until we brought the TSMC fab to the U.S. and architected the CHIPS and Science Act, “chips” were something you ate.
British firms quizzed on Chinese tech links as US-style clampdown looms
British firms are being asked about their investments in a swathe of “sensitive” Chinese sectors as the U.K. seeks to move closer to Joe Biden’s own clampdown on trade with China. After Biden slapped fresh national security curbs on investment by U.S. firms in key Chinese tech sectors, Britain is mulling its own restrictions.
The New York Times wrote: The chip giant is rapidly going global, but cannot break with its Taiwanese roots
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which produces the world’s most advanced microchips. The company ( TSMC ) operates on the island of Taiwan , located in the middle of one of the most geopolitically volatile places on the planet. This situation makes those in Washington very nervous. Because TSMC, which dominates the semiconductor industry, is located in Taiwan, 80 miles from China, and is an indispensable company for the USA.
Former U.S. Under Secretary Keith Krach visits Taiwan again: U.S. and Taiwan unite to resist the CCP model
Former US Under Secretary of State Krach will come to Taiwan again today (9th). He visited Taiwan three years ago. The highest-level current US State Department official visiting Taiwan.
How China weaponizes the capitalist system against us
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the draconian ruler of the world’s second-largest economy, has accumulated immense wealth from American investments. This wealth manifests itself through dollar-denominated Chinese bonds and a myriad of Chinese companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges, including their shrewdly named subsidiaries, intricately woven into the fabric of index funds.
It’s Getting Riskier to Do Business in China
Western companies may find their capital and people trapped if Beijing starts a war over Taiwan.
Taiwan schools, Purdue sign agreements to collaborate on tech
A delegation of academic and diplomatic leaders from Taiwan met with Purdue University officials on Thursday as part of a half-day symposium focused on strengthening ties between the two—particularly in areas of education and economic development. The visit included a discussion with Keith Krach, co-founder and chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and the institute’s CEO Michelle Guida, along with Hsiao, and Chi-hung Lin, president of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Guida also hosted a forum with U.S. and Taiwan private sector leaders.
Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Fireside Chat
The institute is accelerating Purdue’s role at the forefront of technologies critical to American foreign policy and global freedom, including 5G, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, clean energy, biotech, digital currency, autonomous vehicles, space, hypersonics, and quantum computing.
Montana’s Plan To Ban TikTok Is A Preview For The Rest Of The Country
Coal power generation, disproportionately burdened with heavy costs and regulations, dipped slightly last year. “Federal clean energy tax credits are accelerating a nationwide wave of coal plant closures, as those facilities can no longer economically compete,” reports the Hill. Renewables, which owe their leaping abilities to taxpayer subsidies, still lag way behind natural gas.
Biden and Congress want to ban TikTok but at this point it may be impossible
If divestiture fails, the Biden administration has indicated it will seek to impose a direct ban on TikTok. But it would first need a big assist from Capitol Hill. When federal judges blocked the Trump administration’s TikTok ban in 2020, they did so in part based on violations of the Berman amendments — obscure but important 30-year-old provisions in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that allow for the free flow of “informational material” from adversarial nations.
The US is greening itself toward more dependence on China
Coal power generation, disproportionately burdened with heavy costs and regulations, dipped slightly last year. “Federal clean energy tax credits are accelerating a nationwide wave of coal plant closures, as those facilities can no longer economically compete,” reports the Hill. Renewables, which owe their leaping abilities to taxpayer subsidies, still lag way behind natural gas.
