JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Trump says "I like President XI of China…but he is very tough and extremely hard to make a deal with."
This is geopolitical theater masking the real competition: who controls semiconductor supply chains by 2030.
You can't make deals when both sides need the same finite resources. China controls 60% of rare earth processing, US controls chip design software, Taiwan manufactures 90% of advanced chips.
US-China tech decoupling is already 70% complete. Separate ecosystems, parallel AI development, independent fabs under construction. They're not negotiating trade, they're building duplicate civilizational infrastructure.
Personal relationships become irrelevant when neither side can afford technological dependence and there's only one TSMC.
What happens when two superpowers decide compatibility itself is a strategic vulnerability?
