[sativallday]

This feel like corporate geopolitical diplomacy.

[eruleman]

Yup! My favorite Stratechery post is on this very topic, Chips and Geopolitics: https://stratechery.com/2020/chips-and-geopolitics/

[flavius29663]

It sure does, the EU announces they're going to invest X tens of billions in chips, and the next thing you know, the largest backer and beneficiary of EU gets this new factory.