article Wrote:Since more than 95% of such chips used in China are designed by U.S. semiconductor companies and therefore subject to U.S. export controls, loss of access to U.S. chips puts China’s entire future as an AI superpower in jeopardy.
This just weans the CCP away from its usual communist laziness of stealing (technological) intellectual property rather than going the DIY route. Will make them more robust and independent in similar fashion to sanctions-afflicted North Korea's mobile launchers, missile & nuclear warhead boom. (It's the US that should be rediscovering self-reliance as far as homegrown manufacturing goes and seeking domestic alternatives to typical raw material & resource needs.)
90% of super-advanced chips are made in Taiwan, so by reclaiming the latter and flexing military dominance over East Asian waters, it's China that will ultimately cut off the US. Being the chief source of chip designs is useless if you lose access to those who make the chips, and only currently have a
half-baked, government propped up, fledgling industry of one's own as a desperate, back-up means to remedy the loss.
video Wrote:China is down on its knees, or it looks that way.
Meh. Covid restrictions are
being loosened in response to the protests. The other "dire" problems supposedly besieging China (that
this guy mentions) are Western exaggerations and over-optimism.
The CCP isn't going to fall, especially the way its counterpart did in Russia. With respect to the latter, Soviet bureaucrats (the proto-oligarchs) who had enriched themselves over the years realized they could make more money by being passive and allowing the system to continue its collapse. Afterwards instituting a mixed-market economy in a broader category of China's narrower version. CCP bureaucrats have already long-benefited from parasitism on capitalism, no incentive to ever allow the authoritarian remnant of their communist tradition to fade (for a brief period).
Dec 8, 2022 01:56 PM
