Chinese ambition of Taiwan has very little to do with semiconductor industry and mostly to do with their nationalism/legitimacy of CCP.
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Model Y Juniper just started shipping this month. Its a glaring sign that says they bought it after everything Musk did.
EU really needs to at least get off of American tech in government service. Our tax shouldn't be going into their pockets.
Thank you for the source. Just need to use DeepL for translation. Seems like the CDU tax cut is 89 billion euros but I'm not sure if that is every year or over 10 years (which is the standard accounting rule for government budget).
Do you have a source on that? CDU is talking about 500B debt over 10 year. That's a lot of tax cuts.
Maybe get an agreement that debt can only be used for hard infrastructure like rail, electrical grid, etc. and defense spending on weapons and military staffing.
Germany needs the investment, so hopefully they can get an agreement.
I know it's needed, but I'm always worried about the French budget. Their debt to GDP is not healthy right now. On the other hand, the Germans should be spending more.
Feasible, yes. Practical, hard to say. Good idea, yes.
RISC-V is open-source architecture based in Switzerland (although it started in University of California).
One thing going for it is China is spending billions a year towards RISC-V adoption so they do not get sanctioned by the US. You need money and engineers working on it towards these type of open source to compete with existing players.
I don't see AfD supporting debt brake reform, because they present themselves as fiscal hawks (and I reckon AfD wants CDU to fail so they can pick up voters from them).
But the Greens and whoever else should definitely negotiate with CDU for spending on vital infrastructure like electrical grid, rail, energy storage, etc. German economy is wrecked right now due to lack of demand, and Germany has excess industrial capacity to build out these physical investments that will pay off in the future.
Also sadly for Germany, if CDU fails, next election you might be looking at AfD led government like what happened in Netherlands.
As a non-German, I don't want to comment on a sensitive topic like migration, but my thoughts on the economic policy.
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- a special fund federal/state/municipal infrastructure is created, which will have a volume of 500 billion euros and a term of 10 years. This special fund is to be used for investments in infrastructure serve. This includes, in particular, civil protection civil defense, and transport infrastructure, hospital investments, investments in the energy infrastructure, in the education, care and science infrastructure, in , in the research and development development and digitization. 100 billion euros of this is to be allocated to the municipalities are available for the above-mentioned areas
I'm not sure if CDU/SPD has enough votes to bypass/amend the debt brake rules (from what I remember reading, it was written into the Constitution).
But Germany really needs this especially on things like rail (for public mass transportation), electrical grid (to connect Northern renewable offshore wind to Southern Germany), and digitization (hopefully not American spyware but European services like Linux, EU cloud, etc. ).
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Still too many Tesla is sold in the EU.
I expect a bump in cars sold in the next few months as the new Model Y Juniper starts getting produced. You'll know exactly who bought a Tesla in 2025.