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Is there any critical non interchangeable raw material that goes into Intel chips for which CCP has exclusive global control? Xinjiang has some silica mines [0

Is there any critical non interchangeable raw material that goes into Intel chips for which CCP has exclusive global control? Xinjiang has some silica mines [0] which may go into silicon production. Presumably, that is a critical material for Intel. Can it be sourced elsewhere? Is that the leverage the CCP has over Intel? [0] https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3139062/us-ban-chinas-xinjiang-solar-products-linked-alleged-forced https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3139062/u...

tlear 5y ago
Silica is not an issue. Intel executives getting kidnapped(err arrested for illegal blah blah), local managers disappearing, sudden "corruption" investigations etc. There are 2 choices, clear out everything and everyone associated with Intel out of PRC or comply.
- radmuzom 5y ago
  Funny how China doing something are always in the future tense. Whereas the ones who have committed the atrocity of actually illegally detaining an executive by putting pressure on a friendly country is the USA.
  - AnimalMuppet 5y ago
    Illegally detaining an executive is not an "atrocity". Violation of international norms, perhaps, but not an atrocity. Atrocity takes a lot higher standard than that.
  - swagasaurus-rex 5y ago
    Weren't Canadian tourists arrested with bogus charges in response?
    - radmuzom 5y ago
      So? A criminal country with the worst instances of human rights violations and violation of international law all across the world illegally detains the CFO of a company because of their country; and you expect that her country is not going to take action on that?
  - mlindner 5y ago
    It wasn't an illegal detainment. The company was working with Iran. Oh and she lived in a mansion in Vancouver throughout the whole thing. I'm sure she had endured much hardship getting a free vacation for a couple years.
  - Paradigma11 5y ago
    Illegal by violating what laws?
  - thatfunkymunki 5y ago
    ah yes, equating the detention of a rich person in a mansion with an industrial scale genocide operation.

tlear 5y ago

Silica is not an issue. Intel executives getting kidnapped(err arrested for illegal blah blah), local managers disappearing, sudden "corruption" investigations etc. There are 2 choices, clear out everything and everyone associated with Intel out of PRC or comply.

radmuzom 5y ago
Funny how China doing something are always in the future tense. Whereas the ones who have committed the atrocity of actually illegally detaining an executive by putting pressure on a friendly country is the USA.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  Illegally detaining an executive is not an "atrocity". Violation of international norms, perhaps, but not an atrocity. Atrocity takes a lot higher standard than that.
- swagasaurus-rex 5y ago
  Weren't Canadian tourists arrested with bogus charges in response?
  - radmuzom 5y ago
    So? A criminal country with the worst instances of human rights violations and violation of international law all across the world illegally detains the CFO of a company because of their country; and you expect that her country is not going to take action on that?
- mlindner 5y ago
  It wasn't an illegal detainment. The company was working with Iran. Oh and she lived in a mansion in Vancouver throughout the whole thing. I'm sure she had endured much hardship getting a free vacation for a couple years.
- Paradigma11 5y ago
  Illegal by violating what laws?
- thatfunkymunki 5y ago
  ah yes, equating the detention of a rich person in a mansion with an industrial scale genocide operation.