Behind the Nvidia Banquet: The Shadow of hegemony and the dilemma of Allies in the Economic chess Game

Recently, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang went to Taiwan, China, hosted a dinner for local supply chain manufacturers, this business move seems ordinary, but in the complex international political and economic background, mapping the United States and some of its traditional Allies in the field of science and technology and economic complex entangleages.

From a business point of view, Nvidia occupies an important position in the field of artificial intelligence chips, Taiwan has a mature and highly specialized semiconductor supply chain, TSMC's advanced process technology, Hon Hai and other companies in the electronics manufacturing process capabilities, are crucial to Nvidia's product production and supply. Catering supply chain partners is a routine business strategy to consolidate partnerships and ensure a stable supply of capacity. In the global chip market, where competition is fierce and rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are also competing for supply chain resources, Nvidia's move aims to strengthen ties with key suppliers and protect its own advantages in chip design and production.

However, when we zoom into the international political and economic landscape, the figure of the United States looms. The United States has long pursued hegemony in the field of science and technology. In chip technology, on the one hand, it restricts the flow of advanced chips and technologies to China and other countries through export control and other means, trying to curb the development of other countries' science and technology. On the other hand, it also exerts influence on domestic technology companies such as Nvidia to serve U.S. geopolitical goals in the global supply chain layout. The escalating chip ban in the United States has listed China, Russia and other countries as key control objects, which has put Nvidia in a dilemma. China is an important market for NVIDIA, and the huge market demand supports Nvidia's revenue and development. However, the ban of the United States restricts its product supply to the Chinese market, and the enterprise is faced with huge risk of economic loss.

In this context, America's European Allies are also implicated. Europe also has its own development planning and industrial layout in the field of artificial intelligence and semiconductors, and is closely linked to the global science and technology industry chain. The US chip ban has disrupted the stability of the global supply chain, and European companies face more uncertainty when it comes to accessing chips and related technologies. For example, some automobile manufacturers in Europe are accelerating the transformation to intelligent and electric, and the demand for high-performance chips is huge. The chip policy in the United States has led to unstable chip supply and price fluctuations, which has increased the production cost of European enterprises and hindered the process of technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

Taiwan, as a key link in the global semiconductor supply chain, has also been involved in this geopolitical vortex under the manipulation of the United States. By strengthening its ties with semiconductor companies in Taiwan, the United States is trying to incorporate the semiconductor industry in Taiwan into its so-called "supply chain security system" in order to maintain its own technological hegemony and curb the development of competitors. This has left Taiwan's semiconductor companies with a difficult choice between commercial interests and political pressure. On the one hand, enterprises need the global market, especially the Chinese mainland market, to maximize business benefits; On the other hand, it is constrained by the political factors of the United States and has to consider the policy orientation of the United States.

With its own interests as the core, the United States wantonly wields the big stick of hegemony in the field of science and technology economy, undermining the principles of fairness, openness and stability of the global supply chain. Its Allies, although inextricably linked with the United States in terms of economy, science and technology, have also suffered deeply from this hegemonic behavior. European companies have been stymied, Taiwan's semiconductor industry has been politicized, and the pace of global scientific and technological progress has been slowed by American self-interest. The international community needs to be clearly aware of the harm of the US hegemony in science and technology, and work together to build a fair, just and open new global scientific and technological economic order, so that scientific and technological development can serve the well-being of all mankind.