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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (49340)	6/2/2002 1:01:57 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

There are quite a few fabs in the U.S., including several here in Austin. I don't think moving some of the consumer stuff offshore will affect our national defense. I'd be more worried about steel. Here's what a current story in the Register has to say about that issue: theregus.com --QS In a related story, we recommend look at the national security implications of the tech industry's reliance on China and Taiwan for manufacturing, published in the June edition of Harper's [dead tree version only]. Describing Dell Computer as "a delivery channel for Taiwanese-made products", it discusses the vulnerability of Western tech giants to Chinese political pressure. Unnamed electronic companies admit they have no contingency plan in the event of a "sit-down strike" by China's Party-owned manufacturers. In the piece, Intel's Andy Grove describes that Western investment makes war between the US and China essentially impossible, to which the former US Army attache in Beijing replies: "If Grove is that dependent on that source then he has assured the destruction of his own corporation."