[sharken]

Apple is very dependent on using the latest process node from TSMC though. For that reason and the fact that the US cannot match what TSMC does, it all points to Taiwan dictating what kind of aid the US must provide.

I don't see the current US leadership wanting to put that in jeopardy.

[ninetyninenine]

More like the US is dictating the aid. Tsmc is opening a fundamentally unprofitable fab in Arizona.