• PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Is it normal to refer to Taiwanese RAM manufacturers as “Western”?

    I’m glad they distinguish it from China obviously, but calling G.Skill and MSI Western feels kinda weird.

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      6 hours ago

      They do so because while the manufacturing is taking place in Taiwan, the blueprints are not.

      It’s why we call iPhone american phones. Despite them being manufactured in China

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      22 hours ago

      Sort of the joke in the modern US attitude towards Taiwan. They see a break-away province and have no actual respect for their sovereignty. Independent small nations are just colonies-up-for-grabs in the eyes of the US State Department.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes, they chose to put themselves, economically and politically, within the western sphere of influence. It is not geographic. Weirdness is from your ignorance of geopolitics.