SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has been in talks with the Trump administration to build Project Crystal Land, Son’s grand vision for a U.S. competitor to Shenzhen, China’s electronics manufacturing hub, with a population of over 17.5 million people, often dubbed as China’s Silicon Valley or the Silicon Valley of Hardware. According to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-masayoshi-son-factory-plans-7fbb904e?st=CqyRuG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-masayoshi-son-factory-plans-7fbb904e?st=CqyRuG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Wall Street Journal, the plan was originally for a single $1 trillion high-tech industrial city that encompasses the size of Los Angeles and will be built to the…

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