Very interesting move - the Clean Network Campaign

Major blow to the Surveilence State - from The Epoch Times:

US Turns Tide on Huawei, Ending CCP’s 5G Master Plan
The Trump administration scored a victory against the regime in Beijing this year through its “Clean Network” campaign that booted Huawei Technologies Co. out of critical telecommunications infrastructure in many countries.

The effort, while not well-publicized, secured an array of commitments from governments to exclude untrusted vendors from their fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. As of this month, more than 50 nations, representing over two-thirds of the world’s economy, and 180 telecom companies had joined the “Clean Network” initiative led by the U.S. government.

The alliance includes 26 of the 27 EU member states, as well as technologically advanced countries such as Japan, Israel, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, New Zealand, and India.

This is called Leadership.  President Trump has it.  The denizens of the deep state do not. Joe Xiden especially. And, to add delicious insult to injury:

As part of the plan, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced in May that it would build the world’s most advanced 5-nanometer chip fabrication facility in Arizona, an important milestone in securing the semiconductor supply chain and a safe 5G network for the United States and its partners.

China considers Taiwan to be a wayward state.  It just needs to come back under the beneficent wing of the Communists. Taiwan is having nothing of this.  They are an independent nation, they enjoy a free society and a robust economy.

As an aside - I work with machinery and although China is the major manufacturer, the design and the quality for Taiwanese equipment is way better than the Chinese.  India does a decent job too. Buying from China is a last resort or, for when the cheapest price is the delimiting factor.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is a beast - they are the world's most valuable semiconductor company, and the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry. More here: TSMC.