TSMC is taking on Arizona. How's it going? To discuss, ChinaTalk interviewed Viola Zhou, journalist at Rest of World. She has published pieces on Foxconn's quest to make iPhones in India and most recently, a gripping feature about the cultural challenges that TSMC is facing trying to manufacture semiconductors in the USA. Throughout her story, we get a peek into a world of rigid hierarchies, American workers who are slow on the uptake, and culture clash over pornographic desktop flair.
Today’s interview discusses:
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TikTok, Tesla, Kanye and Open Source
How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers
How Corruption Works in China
The H1B Ban and National Security
China-India Clashes: What Happens Next?
Hong Kong's Protests One Year On
Evan Osnos on Tiananmen, Protests in America and Political Leadership
GM Corn Smuggled in Popcorn Bags: An Industrial Espionage Parable
AI Basic Research in China and the US
Health QR Codes and the rise of a 'Digital Leviathan'
Coronastories 3: Nanjing, Nepal, and Singapore
Forging an Innovation Base Alliance
Coronastories 2: Philippines, Russia, Taiwan
Coronastories: Dispatches from Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong
Domestic Coronavirus Propaganda and China-Australia Relations
How the Party Takes its Propaganda Global
Sinocism's Bill Bishop on the Politics of Coronavirus
How Chinese Governance Fundamentals Impact Health Care and National Security
Outraged by the outbreak: Citizen journalism and coronavirus censorship
Tesla’s future in China, technology tensions, and the trade war on ‘pause’
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