[SeekAndFind]

SOURCE:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/tech/china-covid-xian-chips-samsung-micron-intl-hnk/index.html

[EXCERPT]

Two of the world’s biggest chipmakers are warning that Covid-19 outbreaks and stringent lockdowns in a major Chinese industrial hub are hampering their operations.

Samsung and Micron said this week that they’ve had to adjust operations in the northwestern city of Xi’an, which is experiencing one of China’s worst community outbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities have responded by enacting sweeping measures with an intensity and on a scale rarely seen since Wuhan, the pandemic’s original epicenter.

Any slowdown in output from the city risks worsening the global chip shortage, an ongoing crisis that has limited the supply of everything from iPhones to new cars.

Samsung said Wednesday that it had to “temporarily adjust operations” in Xi’an. The South Korean giant added that protecting its workers in the city remains its “top priority,” and that it plans to take “all necessary measures, including leveraging our global manufacturing network, to ensure that our customers are not affected.”

[BiglyCommentary]

Economic warfare.

[imabadboy99]

Don’t think for one second they wouldn’t do this here if they could get away with it.

[353FMG]

Since when do we place our trust in China’s “own data”?

[PapaBear3625]

The Chinese want to cripple the rest of the world’s economy, as their own implodes.

[PIF]

Typical CCP move - fix problem by making it worse

[SaxxonWoods]

All government functionaries worldwide have gone insane.

I don’t want to say it’s aliens....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I think we’d all be better off at this point if the entire semiconductor industry collapsed.

[VanShuyten]

Maybe they’re not lying about the WuFlu numbers, but they’re lying about which disease they’re quarantining for. Is there a biowar lab in Xian?

[aimhigh]

"I'm about to starve at home.

The ChiComs don't care if their own people starve. It's how they reassert control. Every Communist country begins with a famine within a few years of their start, and has no problem causing new famine as needed.

[MercyFlush]

Good. Nothing underlines the foolishness of depending on China more than when they prove you can’t depend on them.