(Columbus) Joe Biden, inaugurating the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Ohio, called the manufacturing of these increasingly sophisticated electronic components a question of “national security,” especially in the face of Chinese ambitions.
Posted yesterday at 3:25 pm.
“It’s all about our economy, it’s also a benefit to our national security,” the American president said at the site, where Intel plans to invest a whopping $20 billion.
Come to praise the recently passed law on his initiative that released 52 billion US dollars in subsidies to revive the production of semiconductors, a move Joe Biden recalled as part of the great competition between China and the United States.
“No wonder… the Chinese Communist Party has tried hard to mobilize the American business community against this legislation,” he said, in the blazing sun, against a backdrop of construction machinery.
The 79-year-old Democrat promised that “the United States will need advanced electronic components for future weapons systems that rely heavily on electronic chips. »
“Unfortunately we are not currently producing any of these advanced semiconductors in America,” he said.
With mid-term legislative elections approaching in November, the US president’s visit also has a clear electoral background.
Ohio, the “rust belt” or “rust belt” state, is one of the factories and blue-collar worker lands historically bought by Democrats, but has fallen into the hands of Republicans and former President Donald Trump. Industrialization.
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