- President Trump asked the resignation of the CEO of Intel
- But Lip-Bu Tan does not bow against Trump’s requests
- Intel has reduced its American factory labor
President Trump was not afraid to take advantage of his influence to try to put pressure on organizations in the changes in policy or staff, his last Vendetta is against the CEO of Intel Lip-Bu Tan.
Tan is accused by Trump of being “very conflicting”, and the president in office calls for his immediate resignation, saying that there is “no other solution to this problem”.
Trump’s call comes after the Republican senator Tom Cotton wrote to the Board of Directors of Intel requesting alleged links “concerning” TAN with Chinese companies.
Political pressure
The conflict that Trump and cotton refer to IS the alleged control of Tan on several Chinese companies, some having links reported with the Chinese army, as well as investments in Chinese technological companies, and a prolonged passage as CEO of the Société Cadance Design Systems.
Apparently, links with cadence design systems seem to be the point of collision for Trump, because the company pleaded guilty to illegally export flea design tools to limited Chinese military organizations, and paid more than $ 140 million in penalties – although Tan has not been personally charged.
“There has been a lot of disinformation circulating on my roles spent at Walden International and Cadence Design Systems,” Tan said in a statement to Intel staff.
“I want to be absolutely clear: over 40 years in industry, I have established relationships in the world and through our various ecosystem-and I have always operated in the highest legal and ethical standards,” he noted.
“My reputation was built on confidence – by doing what I say, and do it in the right way. It’s the same way I direct Intel.”
Intel has recently been criticized, after having reduced its workforce in a series of layoffs that have affected more than 20,000 workers, or 20% of its workforce.
A huge change in the company’s policy has experienced job traces in the United States, a decision that contradicts President Trump’s objective to extend homemade manufacturing, which could explain his hostility.
Although he does not feel in his place in the current administration, in any other context, the head of state demanding that an entrepreneur resigning would be extraordinary, and an example of the type of exaggerated government that libertarian republicans would probably consider an Orwellian attack on the free market.
