Japan announced it will invest up to $21 billion to build two new semiconductor factories as part of the broader US-Japan trade agreement brokered under President Trump. 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 For everyone who said Trump’s tariffs would isolate the United States and drive investment away, this is $21 billion in Japanese money flowing into upstate New York to build chip factories that will be staffed by American workers. The mechanism is exactly what Trump described from the beginning: use tariffs as leverage, negotiate from strength, and make it more attractive for foreign capital to build inside the United States than to ship finished products in from overseas.