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Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China (reuters.com)
Foxconn was in the news recently for plans to "automate entire factories" in China, but the electronics manufacturing company has also announced plans with Sharp to build a $8.8 billion (61 million yuan) factory in China to produce liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Reuters reports: Sakai Display Products Corp's plant will be a so-called Gen-10.5 facility specializing in large-screen LCDs and will be operational by 2019, the company said at a signing event with local officials in Guangzhou on Friday. It said the plant will have capacity equating to 92 billion yuan a year. The heavy investment is aimed at increasing production to meet expected rising demand for large-screen televisions and monitors in Asia. Sakai Display Products Corp's plans for the Guangzhou plant come as Hon Hai seeks to turn the joint venture into a subsidiary, investing a total of 15.1 billion yuan in the company. The venture will also sell 436,000 shares for 17.1 billion yuan to an investment co-owned by Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou, giving Hon Hai a 53 percent interest in the business and lowering Sharp's stake from to 26 percent from 40 percent.
A lot of us voted for him - despite despising him - simply because he's not a treasonous criminal, whereas voting for Hilary was literally agreeing to abandon the laws of our country.
To be clear, if the democrats had chosen a different candidate...Condoleezza Rice, or Bernie Sanders, or a laboratory monkey that could make hand gestures, or a genetically modified mouse, I would have voted against Trump. I'd also have voted for an orange, a pear, a candy bar, or if the democrats had championed an interesting piece of art as their presidential candidate. Probably even a duck. Definitely a rabbit.
But I'm not a criminal, I don't support anarchy, thuggery, or a caste system, so I couldn't vote for Hilary without violating my moral compass. Don't get me wrong - Trump is a serious douchepickle. He may do terrible things - but like millions of other Americans, I fall into the camp of, "He can't be worse."