(Columbus) Joe Biden, inaugurating the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Ohio, considered that the manufacture of these increasingly sophisticated electronic components was a question of “national security”, in particular in the face of Chinese ambitions.
Posted at 3:25 p.m.
“All this is in the interest of our economy, it is also in the interest of our national security”, said the American president, on a site where the company Intel intends to invest the gigantic sum of 20 billion dollars .
Come to praise a recent legislation adopted on his initiative, which releases 52 billion US dollars in subsidies to revive the production of semiconductors, Joe Biden recalled that this measure was part of the great rivalry between China and the United States.
“No wonder…the Chinese Communist Party has vigorously tried to mobilize the American business community against this law,” he said, under a scorching sun, against the backdrop of construction machinery.
The 79-year-old Democrat assured that the United States would need advanced electronic components “for the weapons systems of the future which will be increasingly dependent on electronic chips. »
“Unfortunately we don’t currently produce any, any of these advanced semiconductors in America today,” he said.
The visit of the American president also had an obvious electoral background, as the mid-term legislative elections approach in November.
Ohio, a state of the “Rust Belt” or “Rust Belt”, is one of those lands of factories and blue collar workers historically acquired by the Democrats, but fallen into the hands of the Republicans and the former President Donald Trump against a backdrop of deindustrialization.