Now is the critical moment when the United States is about to enter 2024**, Biden appeases Zelensky on the one hand, and Netanyahu on the other, just to turn most of his energy back home and focus on his re-election campaign. For Biden, whether it is the Russia-Ukraine conflict or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, he must first ensure re-election before he can take care of pulling the "little brother".But at this critical moment, a country that should not cause chaos the most has also revealed the hideous face of "son-in-law devouring the master".
Biden with Fumio Kishida)
According to reference news reports, after a four-month bidding, the absolute symbol of American manufacturing, the United States Steel Corporation, which has a glorious history of 122 years, agreed to be acquired by Nippon Steel for $14.1 billion. From a business point of view only,Nippon Steel is one of the world's largest steelmakers, and U.S. Steel is on the wane, and this deal could help both companies form a synergy to grow bigger and stronger.
But put it in the context of the first year of the United States, combined with the "Bidennomics" that Biden boasted all day long, this is a sign that Fumio Kishida is ignorant. In the middle of this year, after Biden announced that he would run for re-election, his team immediately coined a slogan of "Bidennomics" as a "trump card" for re-election. Its core idea is that since Biden entered the White House, he has passed the "CHIPS and Science Act" and the "Inflation Reduction Act", two outstanding achievements, which have contributed to the return of manufacturing and defended the "international dominance" of the United States in the field of chip manufacturing and clean energy.
U.S. Steel Corporation).
We have also talked about these two bills before, and then we will do a minimalist popularization of science. Probably that is to say, the chip manufacturing link and new energy vehicle companies in the United States, if they invest in the construction of factories in China and comply with regulations such as "raw materials must come from North America", they can get high subsidies. Companies from other countries that come to the U.S. to build factories will also receive incentives such as land, approval procedures, and taxes.
Biden believes that as long as I subsidize enough, I am not afraid that companies will not come to the United States to build factories, but he has not just painted cakes, and has indeed taken trillions of dollars to support production and investment in related fields. Theoretically speaking, there is nothing wrong with Biden's plan, when the United States plays "** barrier", our country is still the Qing Dynasty. But when it was actually implemented, Biden's staff team found that the version seemed to have been updated, and the set he was familiar with could no longer be played.
The problems encountered by local companies in the United States are due to the new crown epidemic, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the high debt of the United States itself, which has led to economic deglobalization and a decline in overall demand. Biden's successive sanctions on China's semiconductor industry have led to the fact that even if American chip companies have production capacity, they cannot sell high-end chips to China, the world's largest market.
Without demand, there can be no expansion, this is the core theory of capitalism, Marx and his old man made it very clear. Some time ago, there was a strange incident, saying that US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo instructed a chip giant to increase research and development expenses and build factories in swing states, so that Biden could seek re-election votes, and people came to say, I produce so much, Americans can't buy it, Chinese can't buy it, what do I bother to do.
The same situation is widely occurring in many fields such as electric vehicles, critical minerals, and clean energy. At the same time, even companies that can expand investment and production are responding to the fact that they want to bypass China's industrial chain on all key components, which is simply not possible.
Is there a problem for companies from other countries to invest and build factories in the United States?There are also. The typical representative is TSMC, a leading semiconductor company in Taiwan. In December 2022, Biden** negotiated terms with TSMC Zhang Zhongmou, who promised to take $40 billion out to build multiple chip manufacturing plants in Phoenix, Arizona. At that time, Biden appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony and shouted "Brothers, American manufacturing is back." ”According to the data provided by the US side, this is one of the largest foreign investment in the history of the United States.
The United States built a chip manufacturing plant).
But now 1 year has passed, and the production line promised by TSMC still has no signs of starting, and the latest news is that Zhang Zhongmou said that the production plan in the United States may have to be postponed to 2025. The reason is that chip manufacturing requires a large number of skilled labor, and the local area cannot recruit it at all.
In the past two months, TSMC and Arizona quarreled when they had nothing to do, and the American labor union also joined in the fun, accusing TSMC of lying, they said that the quality of American workers is very good, and TSMC wants to make the state soft in order to reduce costs so that it can recruit cheap overseas employees. I just want to ask, what is the problem with the pursuit of low cost and high profit by enterprises?Isn't this the most admired market law in the United States?Or is Biden engaging in this kind of subsidy policy to go against the laws of the market and the economy?
Low demand, high costs, lack of skilled workers, coupled with energy, inflation and other issues, this is the living environment of the American manufacturing industry now. In this case, let alone attracting foreign investment, the United States itself may not be able to maintain its own enterprises. In the early years, Apple and Tesla built factories in China, and now American steel companies are being acquired by Japanese capital
What's even more ironic is that when American companies, especially car companies, are worried about costs, Biden also ran to stand up for the striking workers, and he declared himself the most pro-union and most capable of defending American jobs in history. But the result is that the United States is already the world's highest labor cost, and it is still going further. For ordinary workers, it is naturally a good thing to get more wages, but capital also has legs, they can't make money in the United States, they will leave by themselves, and when the time comes, the company will leave, or simply go out of business, who can Biden go to stand for?
Biden gives the striking workers a platform)
This, in fact, is a typical example of the distorted mentality of the "Cold War politicians" of the United States, we defeated the Soviet Union and are the world hegemonWe want the return of manufacturing, high employee welfare, and high corporate profits, we in the United States, want everything. If someone disagrees with the logic of the United States, then they still have the "** big stick, and now, someone in the White House has proposed that even if Japan is our ally, we will carefully examine whether this deal will threaten the United States."
What else is there to say?Check it up, anyway, in the 80s of the last century, when the United States "cut in half" the Japanese semiconductor industry, it didn't show mercy, did it?