US President Calls on Intel CEO To Resign Over China Ties (msn.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/07/1427230/us-president-calls-on-intel-ceo-to-resign-over-china-ties
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-calls-on-intel-ceo-to-resign-over-china-ties/ar-AA1K5t7A
> "The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. The president appeared to be referencing Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's past business dealings in China, which Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) called out in a letter to the company's board earlier this week.
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> On Tuesday, Cotton wrote an open letter to Intel's board questioning Tan's ties to the Chinese government, including apparent connections to the country's military and investments in other semiconductor companies. "The new CEO of @intel reportedly has deep ties to the Chinese Communists," Cotton wrote in a post on X accompanying the letter. "U.S. companies who receive government grants should be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars and adhere to strict security regulations. The board of @Intel owes Congress an explanation."
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-calls-on-intel-ceo-to-resign-over-china-ties/ar-AA1K5t7A
Trump is really smashing the China now! (Score:1)
Like the proverbial dumb elephant in the china shop. Fascinating that there are apparently still people that think he is doing a good job.
Re:Trump is really smashing the China now! (Score:4, Insightful)
> Like the proverbial dumb elephant in the china shop. Fascinating that there are apparently still people that think he is doing a good job.
I don't agree with much that Orange Jeebuz says, but yes, there needs to be an in depth investigation, because at some point it is espionage.
Hell, I needed to report to security if I spoke to a foreign national. It appears that Intel has deep ties to Pooh and his network. And despite what Trump has said, there are other solutions, depending on just what Intel has been sharing with and reporting to the Chinese government. Not many of them very pleasant for those who commit the espionage - if they were committing it.
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> there needs to be an in depth investigation, because at some point it is espionage.
Espionage is a problem for a company. Are you implying that they simply appointed a CEO without vetting them first?
> Hell, I needed to report to security if I spoke to a foreign national.
Maybe you shouldn't be on the internet here. Hi, please go report you spoke to me, I'm not a US citizen. No you don't need to report every time you speak to a foreign national, you need to report if you discuss specific topics with a foreign national. Either that or you're not following your company policy until you print this comment and submit it to HR.
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Espionage = revealing state secrets to a foreign power.
I assume that Intel is not alleged to forward state secrets to a foreign government.
So what is the crime here, that Intel makes business with other countries?
Comrade Trump (Score:3, Insightful)
Conservatives are the new Communists.
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The merger of authoritarian government with private business is a hall-mark of fascism. Attempts to pretend that Trumpism is not Fascism are quite transparent in their empty dishonesty these days.
Private business subservient under fascism (Score:2, Troll)
> The merger of authoritarian government with private business is a hall-mark of fascism.
No, it's not. That is just the false 1970s soviet propoganda spin on it. Just anti-western propoganda of that era.
In reality, fascism includes no such merger. Quite the opposite actually. Under fascism, private business, industrialists, etc are subservient to the party/dictator just like labor. Fascists will allow labor to have unions, unions under party control. Fascists will allow industrial syndicates to form, under party control. Everyone, everything, under party/dictator control, subservient. The pa
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The difference between statism and regulatory capture approaches 0 as you increase authoritarianism. The difference between capitalist oligarchy and party apparatchik is a distinction without a difference. They just spout the same sermon with different adjectives.
Re:Comrade Trump (Score:4, Insightful)
Communism in the "real world" examples like USSR, Maoist China, The DPRK, etc is really just another authoritarian system and its similarities with fascism are closer than people in either camp would admit.
They both suck basically. It's just funny that the "free enterprise" party is going full "Central Planning".
Easy to switch things up when you have no core beliefs anymore.
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They have core beliefs. Those beliefs are orthogonal to what we would deem to be normative politics.
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I'm with you in spirit but for me the entire Trump movement makes way more sense when I gave up trying to think Republicans believe in anything anymore since I have yet to see an issue the party base would dump Trump about. It's not social issues, it's not economic issues, it's nothing Republicans believed in the past.
Whatever Trump wants to do in the moment will get to the Conservative Media, they will parrot the talking points until the base has it's new opinions and they go from there. There's nothing
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MAGAs see it as "getting needed shit done". However, if Biden had used similar mobster-like tactics to coerce his agenda, MAGAs would be having conniptions, worse than Jan 6 even.
Might-Makes-Right is often embraced by those it favors, but such violates the Golden Rule in that if the opposition party does it, it's "commie" or "authoritarianism".
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Especially now since we're seizing the means of production. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Trump administration, which gives Donald Trump the authority to name a board member as well as a non-economic golden share.
Government controlling private industry?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/nippon-steel-acquires-us-steel
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Hey you know what, I am a big Sovereign Wealth Fund supporter so if Trump is opening the door to doing more lefty economics I am not about to stop him.
American for Prosperity and the Federalist Society in shambles! lol
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The fundamental guidelines of capitalism can be summed up as: "babies do not have teeth, so we should ban steak for everyone, as children can not chew."
The fundamental guidelines of communism for the same inquiry is "Give babies teeth, so all may chew, and all may enjoy steak"
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huh? wut?
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New fascists. Not new communists. I mean, they're pretty close, but...
In related news (Score:4, Interesting)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan calls out Trump for his ties to the Kremlin.
And before everyone gets worked up let's ask Grok if Trump has been compromised.
The absence of a smoking gun keeps this issue unresolved. Investigations found suspicious patterns but no conclusive evidence of Trump being directly compromised. Claims from former intelligence officials and defectors are compelling but lack corroboration, and political biases on both sides cloud the debate. Without new, verifiable evidence, the question remains open, with arguments on both sides relying heavily on interpretation rather than fact.
Hell even Grok is suspicious.
Paid/Rewarded source saying what you want to hear (Score:4, Insightful)
> Claims from former intelligence officials and defectors are compelling but lack corroboration, ...
Exactly the same argument used as evidence of Iraqi WMD before the invasion. Exactly the same source, a paid/rewarded source telling you what you want to hear, or a source with their own agenda telling you what you want to hear.
Give Trump a Gold Statue like Apple head Cook did (Score:3)
Obviously, Intel has not kissed Trump's boots enough.
He needs to take a clue from Apple's Tim Cook and present Trump with a Gold icon. That's the proper level of boot-licking.
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Glowing orbs and parades also work.
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His followers still aren't bright enough to notice the parallels. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf
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Indeed! Apple also does a lot of business in Jiiihna, both sourcing and selling. But Cook found a way off Tinties radar by being white and/or kissing his ass.
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Or being one of the companies with so much cash that, as of yet, Trump doesn't have sufficient levers of state in his hand to bring to bear.
Impromptu Survey -- where are the believers? (Score:2)
I have been noticing /. has had an increasing number of articles that are political in nature where nobody shows up anymore to defend Trump. Anyone else with this impression?
In past years there was always at least a few that would indignantly hammer out text about how right and righteous Trump was about something and even if he wasn't he was still far better than absolutely anyone with a D next to their name. So we really ought to be grateful for how great Trump is.
I don't see that anymore. Or at lea
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Survey response: I still see it quite regularly. Less so than before the election, but this is normal for any politician. People are more easily excited for something that is coming up, than something that they already have.
> On topic: This is just one more case of Trump abusing his office if not directly violating the oath of office and it happens so frequently that nobody can do anything about it anymore. Who is going to stop him at this point? No Republican in congress. Not the current partisan SCOTUS. When is enough enough?
Yeah, it's pretty disgusting/shameful. I hear a lot of folks talk about "no more elections" but I think the even more pressing concern is "no more 3 branches of government".
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It's the consolidation of power to the executive branch that opens the path to dictatorship.
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Trump and GOP cult are indefensible. All of the one time "golden values" of the republican party are shit on over their blind allegiance to Lord Trumpkin. Fiscal Conservatives? Nope, the Big Beautiful Bill loads $4+ TRILLION on the deficit. Hands off corporations? Flush that one, this article proves it. Free Trade? Bwahahaha, with nonstop illegal tariffs. Divesting of personal financial interests? Really....
We entered a period of unbridled greed with absolute lawlessness. $5M white house dinners f
Cadence was fined just recently (Score:2)
[1]https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] tells that Cadence, where Intel present CEO worked before, was pleased to pay a noticeable fine due to breaching US export lines with China. That is the farthest I can agree with POTUS.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/cadence_fine_export_violations/
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As if Trumperdink knew what being a "responsible steward" involved...
Mass Hysteria (Score:2)
Rule by tweet. Nevermind the law, just do whatever the orange emperor tweets.
Re:Micro manager (Score:4, Insightful)
You can always tell when he writes something compared to one of his stooges. He likes random capitalized words.