That's not non-sense, that's the reality [1] It happened with Japan, look at them nowadays [2] It also happened with Europe, Alcatel and Nokia, look at them n

That's not non-sense, that's the reality [1] It happened with Japan, look at them nowadays [2] It also happened with Europe, Alcatel and Nokia, look at them nowadays [3] For some reason, only Microsoft can get away with bribing foreign countries [4, 5] We seen the extension of it with the ban of chinese's 5G and multiple tech companies, including huawei, wich later unveiled novel EUV patents [6], they maybe knew what they were cooking TSMC's developing story is also quite revealing, with US officials suggesting sabotaging TSMC [7] "deep state" nowadays has negative connotation because the government wants it to be that way ('it's a conspiracy' argument), look, it works [8] And it's not just with tech, there are some suspicious stories in other industries, car [9] and metal manufacturing [10] for example After all these stories, seeing Samsung having to drop plans for a homemade chip with advanced homemade fabs instantly ring bells, specially when the house was tainted with similar stories [11] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism [2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/sanctions-imposed-on-japan/f0daac66-74fe-4f5c-96ce-3aa08898b4bd/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s... [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent#Lawsuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent#Lawsuits [4] - https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_corrupt_business/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_... [5] - http://techrights.org/2014/05/28/microsoft-brazil/ http://techrights.org/2014/05/28/microsoft-brazil/ [6] - https://www.techspot.com/news/97072-huawei-patents-euv-lithography-tools-used-make-10nm.html https://www.techspot.com/news/97072-huawei-patents-euv-litho... [7] - https://eurasiantimes.com/us-taiwan-should-destroy-its-semiconductor-industry-to-deter-china/ https://eurasiantimes.com/us-taiwan-should-destroy-its-semic... [8] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_State... [9] - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Carlos_Ghosn https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Carlos_Ghosn (i couldn't find english coverage) [10] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Pierucci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Pierucci [11] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Scandals_and_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Scandals_and_contr...