THE US is now forcing tech giants to give their technology and market secrets to the US government, demanding strategic manufacturing world-leaders Samsung and TSMC to give details of their clients, clients' orders, income and expenditures, patent information and production by November 8 or face consequences, including arrest of their officers.

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse," is an oft-quoted line of the world's most famous fictional mafia boss and godfather, Don Corleone.

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