For Biden, semiconductor production is a 'national security' issue

Joe Biden, inaugurating the construction of a semiconductor factory in Ohio (east) considered that the manufacture of these increasingly sophisticated electronic components was a question of

, in particular in the face of Chinese ambitions.

,” said the American president, on a site where the company Intel intends to invest the gigantic sum of 20 billion dollars. .

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Coming to praise recent legislation adopted on his initiative, which releases $ 52 billion in subsidies to revive the production of semiconductors, Joe Biden recalled that this measure was part of the great rivalry between China and the United States.

," he said, under a scorching sun, and against the backdrop of machinery. worksite.

State of the “Rust Belt”

The 79-year-old Democrat assured that the United States would need advanced electronic components

," he lamented.

The visit of the American president also had an obvious electoral background, as the mid-term legislative elections approach in November.

Ohio, state of the "Rust Belt" or "Rust Belt", is one of these lands of factories and blue-collar workers historically won over to the Democrats, but fallen into the hands of the Republicans and the government. former President Donald Trump against a backdrop of deindustrialization.