Author Archives: Terry Cooke

South Korea Says U.S. Chips Act Subsidies Have Too Many Requirements

Trade ministry says ‘unusual conditions’ will make investment in U.S. difficult Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, March 8, 2023) by Jiyoung Sohn SEOUL—The U.S. Chips Act is dangling billions of dollars in subsidies in front of the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturers, but South Korea says there are too many strings attached. The conditions for receiving the subsidies unveiledContinue reading “South Korea Says U.S. Chips Act Subsidies Have Too Many Requirements”

TikTok Endgame Against the Time-Clock

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Volume 2, Number 4 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series   The weekend’s big development in the technology arena is Beijing’s eleventh-hour move to alter the timing and trajectory of the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operation. We touched on the Trump Administration’s August moves against TikTok’s parent Bytedance…

Fiddling Around with U.S.-China Tech

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Volume 2, Number 3 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series A U.S.-led initiative to reach out to China and to welcome it into the community of Western nations began with President Nixon trip to Beijing in February 1972.  Orchestrated by Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s National Security Advisor at the…

The COVID-19 / Climate Change Nexus – – – – 10 Key Impacts

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The COVID-19 pandemic holds lots of lessons for addressing the climate change challenge.  I’ll tackle the knottiest set of lessions — those concerning differing global responses, U.S. partisan cleavages, the psychology of risk and individual choice, and the ethics — in an upcoming post. For now, I…