U.S. Tech Monopolies Gather Allies to Attack ChinaU.S. tech monopolies are forming alliances to restrict China in the development, manufacturing and circulation of computer chips, artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud and other software platforms. Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger gathered together leaders from Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm and Cisco in the U.S. and Samsung in south Korea and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in hopes of forming a global alliance to isolate and wage commercial war against China. Intel and IBM in particular appear desperate to regain their former commercial glory and world dominance, while the U.S. ruling elite generally appear fearful of China overcoming U.S. imperialism's technological superiority. Intel seeks to establish what it calls international computer chip-making facilities to serve the needs of all manufacturers within the U.S.-led imperialist system of states as part of a commercial war against Chinese companies. Intel's global cartel will spend $20 billion, along with billions more donated from allied governments, to build new chip foundries and research institutions in the U.S. and the EU. Gelsinger said the cartel will develop "multi-year research partnerships with former competitors" and reverse the "current 80/20 division of high-end chip production in Asia versus the rest for the world." For Gelsinger, Taiwan and south Korea are not considered "Asian" but rather part of the U.S. empire. With new facilities in Arizona and elsewhere and large research budgets, the global cartel seeks to regain and solidify U.S. technology dominance in the key sectors of "chip design and manufacture; systems and processing architectures; telecom and AI." To reach this goal of domination, an alliance with Taiwan manufacturer TSMC appears to be central, along with worldwide efforts to block and criminalize Chinese companies such as Huawei. To pursue this scheme for U.S. hegemony, the political entity of Taiwan must remain within the U.S.-led imperialist system of states and not rejoin China. Also, south Korea and Japan must not be allowed to break free from their current military alliances with the United States. For all this to happen, Gelsinger emphasized that "the necessary security needs of each of our partner governments" must be strengthened. This means the U.S. military must continue to provoke China, occupy the Taiwan Strait with warships, and block public opinion within Taiwan from making the island a zone for peace and peacefully reunite with China. Likewise, the U.S. must keep south Korea from peacefully reuniting with the DPRK and expelling U.S. troops from the peninsula, and the U.S. military must not only remain in Japan but expand its operations and bases. Regarding official support of Intel's scheme for a global tech cartel, Reuters reports that "President Biden's expansive infrastructure proposal includes $50 billion for the American semiconductor industry. The $50 billion will go toward production incentives and research and design, say administration officials." Biden's pay-the-rich schemes for "domestic manufacturing and chip research" are part of the administration's $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Reuters said the White House invited Intel CEO Gelsinger to attend a virtual meeting on April 12, "to discuss the semiconductor supply chain issues disrupting U.S. automotive factories, according to a person familiar with the matter." The meeting was to have included Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and a top economic aide, Brian Deese, as well as chipmakers and automakers. Concerning Gelsinger's comment on "the necessary security needs of each of our partner governments" to restrict Chinese companies and influence, Bloomberg News says, "On the back of security concerns, the U.S. government will use (Intel's) offering for military and defence contracts. Analysts expect that Intel will also benefit from future subsidies and tax incentives from the Biden administration for building domestic chip factories." Predictions are circulating in the imperialist media and official circles that cartels are also being planned to challenge and isolate China on the front of battery technology and manufacturing and the procuring of necessary raw materials, and in the rare-earth supply chain sector. The U.S. imperialists expect Canadian resources to become a major captured supplier for the planned battery and rare-earth U.S. cartels. Canadians cannot allow themselves to become pawns in the fight of the U.S. oligarchy to control the world. The Intel plan for a global cartel in technology to combat China is a poisonous direction leading to bad relations and possible war. The Canadian economy and its relations with the world need a new direction of cooperation for mutual benefit and development of all humanity within peaceful relations not bitter competition and war. A step in this positive direction is to withdraw Canada from all war alliances with the U.S. such as NATO and NORAD and make Canada a zone for peace through an anti-war government. Another step would be to extricate the Canadian economy from the U.S. war machine and build a self-reliant economy under the control of Canadians that trades and cooperates with everyone for mutual benefit without interfering in the sovereign affairs of others. On the issue of self-reliance, the pandemic has exposed the lack of a human-centred public pharmaceutical sector. Canadians lack adequate hospital supplies and anti-Covid vaccines at prices that do not bankrupt the country. Hospital supplies and vaccines currently available require vast amounts of money flowing into the pockets of Big Pharma and other monopolies. This must stop with a new direction. (With files from Automotive News, Financial Post and Bloomberg)
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