The US has been trying to build a rocket to go back to the moon. The current attempt is a rewarming of the Space Shuttle. Is that a sensible way to build a rock

The US has been trying to build a rocket to go back to the moon. The current attempt is a rewarming of the Space Shuttle. Is that a sensible way to build a rocket to go to the moon? No. But it was the only way to get Congressional approval, as lawmakers wanted to maintain economic activity in their own states/districts. The US is not capable of having a national policy on anything, because power is too fractured and fragile. Which is not a bad thing overall necessarily, but it is a bad thing in this case. Taiwan is a small unitary state, as is South Korea. The governments of both know that the national interest and their chipbuilders’ interests are aligned. In Taiwan’s case especially so.