Chips, Power, and the Politics of Control
When politics meets semiconductors, logic gets rewritten.
Trump’s aides sank Nvidia’s China deal — not because of economics, but optics.
Every chip has become a geopolitical statement:
who controls the next layer of intelligence, controls the next layer of power.
Meanwhile, tariffs quietly aged into irrelevance.
No collapse, no miracle — just friction baked into trade.
The world didn’t fragment. It slowed.
AI chips, tariffs, and electricity prices all tell the same story —
the 2020s are not about growth, but about control of inputs: data, energy, and algorithms.