EPISODE · Aug 21, 2025 · 12 MIN
Insults To China BLOW UP Trump’s Crony Capitalism Scheme
from Mallen Baker: Faultlines · host Mallen Baker
Trump's administration has started getting directly involved with businesses in the United States, especially those considered strategic. Up to, and including, taking part-ownership of Intel. But it's the plan to get AI chips being sold to China, with a slice of the revenue going to the government, that has really stirred things up. Not least because China is now turning away from those chips completely after the Trump administration boasted they were selling them redundant tech and boasted they were doing so to trap them. Another genius day in Trump Land. Let's discuss.
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Trump's administration has started getting directly involved with businesses in the United States, especially those considered strategic. Up to, and including, taking part-ownership of Intel. But it's the plan to get AI chips being sold to China, with a slice of the revenue going to the government, that has really stirred things up. Not least because China is now turning away from those chips completely after the Trump administration boasted they were selling them redundant tech and boasted they were doing so to trap them. Another genius day in Trump Land. Let's discuss.
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