Geopolitics
The Tata-ASML Deal: A Pyrrhic Victory in the Neo-Colonial Tech War
A recent Memorandum of Understanding between Tata and ASML of the Netherlands places India within the world's most exclusive semiconductor manufacturing partnership. However, this hard-won strategic victory for the Global South is fundamentally compromised by China's critical control over the mineral inputs required for chip fabrication, exposing a persistent vulnerability that Western-imposed systems are designed to exploit.
